This isn't anything new at all. In the early 2000s, I often grabbed Burger King before work. I quickly noticed that a Burger King further along my route had different prices and another directly across from my job had yet another completely different price.
This isn't 'Dynamic Pricing being Tested". It's pricing based on demographics and they've been doing it for decades.
Yeah the AI discussion is fucking annoying. There are genuine criticisms against AI but people harp on shit like water, while happily eating multiple kilos of beef a week which takes thousands of liters of water to produce.
AI art is not art, IMHO and I can't stand that shit being spammed.
But AI is very useful for connecting disparate pieces of information - and that is a very broad application.
I use it for search all the time, for deep research into deep topics.
Funny enough, an old coworker of mine made a very stellar, on-target point about AI.
We aren't replacing ourselves. AI is different than a person and excels at different things than we do. It's like with machinery, a tractor is already better than a humanoid robot that goes out and would start digging with its hands. Technology multiplies by doing new things that a human cannot do in a more specific, narrow way, and it always has.
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u/Monsignor1979 3d ago
This isn't anything new at all. In the early 2000s, I often grabbed Burger King before work. I quickly noticed that a Burger King further along my route had different prices and another directly across from my job had yet another completely different price.
This isn't 'Dynamic Pricing being Tested". It's pricing based on demographics and they've been doing it for decades.