{"id":189986,"date":"2024-05-24T15:22:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T20:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/gpt-4-is-able-to-buy-stuff-on-amazon-researchers-say"},"modified":"2024-05-24T15:22:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T20:22:45","slug":"gpt-4-is-able-to-buy-stuff-on-amazon-researchers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/gpt-4-is-able-to-buy-stuff-on-amazon-researchers-say","title":{"rendered":"GPT-4 is able to buy stuff on Amazon, researchers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gpt-4-is-able-to-buy-stuff-on-amazon-researchers-say2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still, ChatGPT operates in a mostly siloed fashion. It can\u2019t yet venture out \u201cinto the wild\u201d to execute online tasks. For example, if you wanted to buy a milk frother on Amazon for under $100, ChatGPT might be able to recommend a product or two, and even provide links, but it can\u2019t actually navigate Amazon and make the purchase.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Besides obvious concerns, like letting a flawed AI model go on a shopping spree with your credit card, one challenge lies in training AI to successfully navigate graphical user interfaces (GUIs), like your laptop or smartphone screen.<\/p>\n<p>But even the current version of GPT-4 seems to grasp the basic steps of online shopping. That\u2019s the takeaway of a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2311.07562.pdf\">preprint paper<\/a> in which AI researchers described how they successfully trained a GPT-4-based agent to \u201cbuy\u201d products on Amazon. The agent, dubbed the MM-Navigator, did not actually purchase products, but it was able to analyze screenshots of an iOS smartphone screen and specify the appropriate action and where it should click, with impressive accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still, ChatGPT operates in a mostly siloed fashion. It can\u2019t yet venture out \u201cinto the wild\u201d to execute online tasks. For example, if you wanted to buy a milk frother on Amazon for under $100, ChatGPT might be able to recommend a product or two, and even provide links, but it can\u2019t actually navigate Amazon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}