1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:04,640 Speaker 1: If you've ever spent hours researching a purchase only to 2 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:08,319 Speaker 1: still feel unsure or worse, realize later that you paid 3 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:13,120 Speaker 1: too much, this episode is for you. Shopping has become 4 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 1: more complex, more time consuming, and more expensive than it 5 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 1: needs to be. In this how AAI episode, Neo and 6 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:26,160 Speaker 1: I get practical about how to use AI as your 7 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 1: personal shopping assistant. You'll learn how to compare products without 8 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 1: drowning inspects, cut through biased reviews, find the best price 9 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:39,920 Speaker 1: and discount codes, and even set up AI to watch 10 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:42,839 Speaker 1: prices for you so that you can buy with confidence 11 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:53,200 Speaker 1: and save money without the overwhelm. Welcome to how IAI 12 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: with me Doctor Amantha Imber and Neo Applin, head of 13 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 1: Inventium AI. Each episode we share one practical way to 14 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:05,040 Speaker 1: use AI better at work and in life. No fluff, 15 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:08,240 Speaker 1: no tech jargon, just things you can use straight away. 16 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 1: So we are recording this a few weeks after Christmas 17 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:14,399 Speaker 1: break and I think it's fair to say that a 18 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:17,480 Speaker 1: lot of people do a lot of shopping over that 19 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:21,680 Speaker 1: time of year or this time of year. And I 20 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:25,319 Speaker 1: know that you and I, Neo both use AI a 21 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 1: lot in helping us make good decisions with shopping and 22 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 1: importantly saving money. So let's talk through your journey of 23 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 1: buying something. What do you want to use as an example? 24 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 1: What is something that you've recently bought and used AI 25 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 1: for that process. 26 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:47,639 Speaker 2: I've been looking for the last two or three months 27 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 2: for a music streamer, So it's like a sonassy thing. 28 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 2: I've got an amp I've had for ten years or 29 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 2: something like that, but I want to be able to 30 00:01:56,880 --> 00:02:00,560 Speaker 2: stream from my phone to this amp through a box. Great. 31 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 2: There are so many of these on the market, and 32 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:05,560 Speaker 2: I don't know which one's good. I don't know which 33 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 2: was bad, or where you buy them from, which features 34 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 2: they got, what kind of plugs they've got, all those 35 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 2: kind of things. I use Perplexity a lot for that. 36 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:17,080 Speaker 2: I used some of the other adels for someone, but 37 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:21,079 Speaker 2: I found Perplexity was awesome for comparing these two different products, 38 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 2: comparing social reviews on these things, which one should I get, 39 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 2: pros and cons all those kind of things. So for 40 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:30,519 Speaker 2: researching of what product you need to solve your problem, 41 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 2: because that's generally what I am buying, then AI is 42 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 2: amazing for that. 43 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 1: So what can you give me examples of the types 44 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 1: of prompts that you're putting in and also what you're 45 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 1: getting perplexity to search, because I know that you can 46 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:46,080 Speaker 1: have it search the Internet, you can have it search 47 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:48,519 Speaker 1: social media media. So take us through in more detail 48 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 1: how you're using it there. 49 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 2: Yep, So it might be here's the problem I've got, 50 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 2: what could I use to solve it? Or what are 51 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 2: other people doing to solve that kind of problem? So 52 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,160 Speaker 2: it's like at the start of your journey. Really good 53 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 2: for those kind of things. When you're starting to find 54 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:04,919 Speaker 2: a couple of products, then I would do a comparison. 55 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 2: So I've got here, what's the in between product A 56 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 2: and product B, and Perplexity will compare that. Often it 57 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:14,160 Speaker 2: puts it in a table, which I really like to 58 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:16,920 Speaker 2: be able to say different prices, different features, different versions. 59 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 2: Really good for software comparison as well, like if I'm 60 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 2: going to buy software A or software B, what does 61 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 2: it have? Those kind of things I from bringing a 62 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:27,680 Speaker 2: solution C into the mix and then have a discussion 63 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:31,360 Speaker 2: with AI like it was my personal shopping assistant, like 64 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 2: shopping concierge. Is this better than that? Why would I 65 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 2: use this one over that one? Actually use those kind 66 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 2: of questions and get it to tell you why i'd 67 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 2: buy one thing over another. Like here's an example, I 68 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 2: have an old PlayStation four. I don't game enough to 69 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 2: warrant buying a PlayStation five, but I still look at 70 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 2: a PlayStation five and I saw there's a PlayStation five pro, 71 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 2: and it's like, what's the between that and the basics? 72 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 2: And is it got to disk drive? All those kind 73 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 2: of things. AI is really good to give you those 74 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 2: easy comparisons. Other than that, what you're either going to 75 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 2: do is either by the wrong one or you're going 76 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 2: to spend an awful lot of time searching the internet. 77 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 2: It's really useful for things that are really complicated, like 78 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 2: TVs or washing machines. Like all the dad features on 79 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 2: washing machines, I don't know what they are, and they 80 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:21,279 Speaker 2: go proprietary different names for the same thing as the 81 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 2: other company. Get AI to sort the complexity out for 82 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:27,279 Speaker 2: you so you can then decide what you want to buy. 83 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 1: And so you said Perplexity is your go to Why 84 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 1: Perplexity over chat GPT because they both search the Internet? 85 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 2: Yes they do. I prefer Perplexity for a couple of reasons. 86 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:45,680 Speaker 2: One is it's for me. It's been the granddaddy of 87 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 2: the AI plus Internet together. The others added into Internet later, 88 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:55,159 Speaker 2: so it's almost like the Internet or an after thought 89 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:58,240 Speaker 2: as far as it goes. Because Perplexity is a bit 90 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:00,520 Speaker 2: like Google that searches the Internet, and it has indexes 91 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 2: on the Internet and things like that. Under the hood, 92 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 2: CHCHBT is simply using makes it's being. Under the hood, 93 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 2: it'll run a being search and then read the top 94 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 2: ten pages on being and give it back to you. 95 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 2: Whereas perplexity is its own thing, it does its own searches. 96 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 2: If you're a Google person and you love your Google ecosystem, 97 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:20,600 Speaker 2: Google's got an AI mode which does a really similar 98 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 2: thing to perplexity, so give that a go as well. 99 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:24,960 Speaker 2: In fact, you what you might do is what I 100 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 2: do is do an ab test. Try your prompt in perplexity, 101 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:31,920 Speaker 2: Try the same prompt in the AI mode on Google 102 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 2: and see whether you get a different respots. 103 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:37,120 Speaker 1: And how do you access AI mode on Google? Because 104 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 1: it's not to be confused with the AI overview that 105 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: Google also gives if you're in normal Google dot com. 106 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:47,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, the with Google if you go to Google dot com, 107 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:49,159 Speaker 2: like not your address bar at the top and not 108 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:52,680 Speaker 2: the home page on your browser, like actually go to 109 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 2: Google dot com, and you'll notice that in the search 110 00:05:57,160 --> 00:05:59,360 Speaker 2: box in the middle of the page, on the right 111 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 2: hand side, there's a thing that says AI mode, And 112 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 2: when you click on that, it looks really similar to 113 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:07,920 Speaker 2: like Gemini and CHGPT, and it looks like a large 114 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 2: language model. And with that AI mode you can give 115 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 2: more background. What I mean by that is general searching 116 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:15,480 Speaker 2: on Google. You've got to use keyword search, so it 117 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 2: might be best PlayStation Gaming twenty twenty five, something like 118 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:24,760 Speaker 2: you feel like you're a caveman, right, and you're giving 119 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:28,039 Speaker 2: keyword now go kind of thing, Whereas with the AI 120 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:30,159 Speaker 2: mode you can give more background. So you could say, 121 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:32,480 Speaker 2: I'm an occasional gamer, but I've got a whole bunch 122 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:34,479 Speaker 2: of PlayStation four discs, I want to play it on 123 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 2: PlayStation five. How do I do that? Or I'm after 124 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,360 Speaker 2: a washing machine for a family of four, what's the 125 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:43,479 Speaker 2: best one to buy? Rather than just best washing machine 126 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 2: twenty twenty five? Right, So AMI can take that context 127 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:48,920 Speaker 2: that does a much better job, but PERLEXI does the same. 128 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:52,000 Speaker 2: More context you can give it the better obviously thrown 129 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:54,159 Speaker 2: upload company documents if you're not allowed to. 130 00:06:55,440 --> 00:07:00,719 Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk about saving money, because I think that 131 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 1: that matters to everyone. So how do you use AI? 132 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:08,440 Speaker 1: Once you've decided on the product that you're buying to 133 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 1: find the best price, what are you using and how 134 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 1: are you prompting it? 135 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:17,400 Speaker 2: I go between AI mode on Google and also perplexity 136 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:20,200 Speaker 2: to find that best price. And so once I've decided 137 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:23,000 Speaker 2: what I want, So this streamer that I bought is 138 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 2: the wim Ultra, believe it or not, and I was like, 139 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 2: where do I buy it? And a win Ultra what's 140 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 2: the best price? What's the best historical low price? So 141 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 2: I've got those kind of things in there now. Interestingly enough, 142 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:35,440 Speaker 2: it gave me a bunch of retailers that I hadn't 143 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 2: heard of. But then I was like, no, no, I want 144 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 2: Australian ones. And it can then obviously refine down if 145 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 2: you want to see something locally like a washing machine, 146 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 2: maybe you want to see it, touch a play it, 147 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:48,680 Speaker 2: then go I only want Melbourne, or I only want 148 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 2: Sydney or wherever you might live. Or you might say 149 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 2: I've got a budget of this, find me products that 150 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:56,400 Speaker 2: fit that budget. Or it might be what's on special 151 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 2: this month or what's the historical lows those kind of things, 152 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:01,320 Speaker 2: so you can work with it to get the kind 153 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 2: of priced information that you want. 154 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 1: I like the historical lows. How like, how would you 155 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 1: use that if you wanted to buy something in the 156 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 1: next couple of months and the historical low was I 157 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 1: don't know, significantly less than it is now. Can you 158 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,360 Speaker 1: prompt the AI to tell you when to expect the 159 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 1: next low or predict sales or anything like that. 160 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 2: Well, that's a good one. You probably could. Like if 161 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:30,760 Speaker 2: the last historical low was of Black Friday sales, then 162 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 2: it will probably predict it'll be the next Black Friday sales, 163 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:36,960 Speaker 2: so you could do that. Well, I'd probably use AIS 164 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 2: if you don't need to buy that thing straight away. 165 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:42,240 Speaker 2: What you could do is get a scheduled prompt, So 166 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 2: in chachipt and copilt and others, you can get it 167 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:47,959 Speaker 2: to do something every so often. So you might say, 168 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:52,319 Speaker 2: every week, I want you to search these eight websites 169 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:57,319 Speaker 2: for this product. If the price is below this price, 170 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:00,240 Speaker 2: then I want you to let me know or something that, 171 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 2: or give me a list of the prices for this 172 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:05,560 Speaker 2: product across those ten retails or something like that. You'll 173 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:08,280 Speaker 2: then highlight that and then continue an email each day 174 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:10,240 Speaker 2: each week when it runs that prompt, So it's a 175 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 2: scheduled prompt that you can do in CHETBT and in 176 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 2: a copilot and others. 177 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 1: Now, another way to save money is through discount codes. 178 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:23,360 Speaker 1: How are you using AI to help find those discount codes? 179 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 2: Well, not everywhere has a discount code, as much as 180 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:27,880 Speaker 2: I want everywhere to have a discount code. And some 181 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:30,880 Speaker 2: of the discount codes they disappear, and they're old, all 182 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 2: those kind of things. So the problem is finding them, 183 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 2: and the problem is finding ones that are up to date. 184 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:38,920 Speaker 2: There are discount code websites, and I've found them to 185 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:43,559 Speaker 2: be scammy, spammy, discusting. Whatever. I've found just as good, 186 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:49,160 Speaker 2: if not better, using perplexity, better results using perplexity. So 187 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 2: they still can be out of date, they still may 188 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 2: not work, but at least you don't go through that 189 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:57,920 Speaker 2: scammy spamy stuff. And I find it's actually easier, better, faster. 190 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:01,959 Speaker 1: So what kind of a are you putting into perplexity 191 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,080 Speaker 1: to find good discount codes? 192 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:06,760 Speaker 2: Help me find discount codes for the retailer you've picked, 193 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:11,000 Speaker 2: or helped me find retailer discount codes for this product 194 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 2: for this retailer or any retailer who can button, you know, 195 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:19,440 Speaker 2: sell this particular product. So if you're doing makeup, you 196 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:22,640 Speaker 2: might say ad or beauty. Maybe that's you know, to 197 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 2: have a discount codes going at the moment or something, 198 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:26,800 Speaker 2: and they'll search a whole bunch of internet websites and 199 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:31,000 Speaker 2: social is the other cool thing about Perplexity. You can say, 200 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:35,800 Speaker 2: search social sources in particular, so whether that discount code's 201 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:38,200 Speaker 2: being shared on some kind of community forum, it would 202 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 2: be more likely to pick those kind of things up. 203 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:45,400 Speaker 2: So yeah, you can find discount codes on Perplexity. Once again, 204 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:47,240 Speaker 2: not one hundred percent, but it's still pretty good. 205 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:51,160 Speaker 1: Amazing Leo, thank you so much for sharing how we 206 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:56,600 Speaker 1: can save money when we are going shopping. Lots of 207 00:10:56,840 --> 00:11:00,360 Speaker 1: awesome tips that I hope maybe might save with some 208 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:02,720 Speaker 1: money today if you happen to be buying something. Thank you. 209 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:06,680 Speaker 1: If you found this useful, please help us spread the 210 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 1: AI love and share it with someone who you think 211 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:12,760 Speaker 1: would benefit from knowing what you now know. And if 212 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:16,600 Speaker 1: you're ready to really start mastering AI, check out inventium 213 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:21,640 Speaker 1: dot ai. We help individuals, teams, and organizations turn Jenai 214 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 1: into a real work superpower, saving ten plus hours a 215 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,599 Speaker 1: week and staying future ready without the jargon or overwhelmed. 216 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:31,840 Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening and we'll see you next 217 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:36,480 Speaker 1: time on how IAI. How IAI was hosted by me 218 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 1: Amantha Imber and Neo Applan. A big thank you to 219 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 1: Martin Imba who does our sound editing, and Jim Rubio 220 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 1: for production support, and thank you to John Kilby who 221 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 1: composed the theme music.