Speaker 1: If you've ever spent hours researching a purchase only to
Speaker 1: still feel unsure or worse, realize later that you paid
Speaker 1: too much, this episode is for you. Shopping has become
Speaker 1: more complex, more time consuming, and more expensive than it
Speaker 1: needs to be. In this how AAI episode, Neo and
Speaker 1: I get practical about how to use AI as your
Speaker 1: personal shopping assistant. You'll learn how to compare products without
Speaker 1: drowning inspects, cut through biased reviews, find the best price
Speaker 1: and discount codes, and even set up AI to watch
Speaker 1: prices for you so that you can buy with confidence
Speaker 1: and save money without the overwhelm. Welcome to how IAI
Speaker 1: with me Doctor Amantha Imber and Neo Applin, head of
Speaker 1: Inventium AI. Each episode we share one practical way to
Speaker 1: use AI better at work and in life. No fluff,
Speaker 1: no tech jargon, just things you can use straight away.
Speaker 1: So we are recording this a few weeks after Christmas
Speaker 1: break and I think it's fair to say that a
Speaker 1: lot of people do a lot of shopping over that
Speaker 1: time of year or this time of year. And I
Speaker 1: know that you and I, Neo both use AI a
Speaker 1: lot in helping us make good decisions with shopping and
Speaker 1: importantly saving money. So let's talk through your journey of
Speaker 1: buying something. What do you want to use as an example?
Speaker 1: What is something that you've recently bought and used AI
Speaker 1: for that process.
Speaker 2: I've been looking for the last two or three months
Speaker 2: for a music streamer, So it's like a sonassy thing.
Speaker 2: I've got an amp I've had for ten years or
Speaker 2: something like that, but I want to be able to
Speaker 2: stream from my phone to this amp through a box. Great.
Speaker 2: There are so many of these on the market, and
Speaker 2: I don't know which one's good. I don't know which
Speaker 2: was bad, or where you buy them from, which features
Speaker 2: they got, what kind of plugs they've got, all those
Speaker 2: kind of things. I use Perplexity a lot for that.
Speaker 2: I used some of the other adels for someone, but
Speaker 2: I found Perplexity was awesome for comparing these two different products,
Speaker 2: comparing social reviews on these things, which one should I get,
Speaker 2: pros and cons all those kind of things. So for
Speaker 2: researching of what product you need to solve your problem,
Speaker 2: because that's generally what I am buying, then AI is
Speaker 2: amazing for that.
Speaker 1: So what can you give me examples of the types
Speaker 1: of prompts that you're putting in and also what you're
Speaker 1: getting perplexity to search, because I know that you can
Speaker 1: have it search the Internet, you can have it search
Speaker 1: social media media. So take us through in more detail
Speaker 1: how you're using it there.
Speaker 2: Yep, So it might be here's the problem I've got,
Speaker 2: what could I use to solve it? Or what are
Speaker 2: other people doing to solve that kind of problem? So
Speaker 2: it's like at the start of your journey. Really good
Speaker 2: for those kind of things. When you're starting to find
Speaker 2: a couple of products, then I would do a comparison.
Speaker 2: So I've got here, what's the in between product A
Speaker 2: and product B, and Perplexity will compare that. Often it
Speaker 2: puts it in a table, which I really like to
Speaker 2: be able to say different prices, different features, different versions.
Speaker 2: Really good for software comparison as well, like if I'm
Speaker 2: going to buy software A or software B, what does
Speaker 2: it have? Those kind of things I from bringing a
Speaker 2: solution C into the mix and then have a discussion
Speaker 2: with AI like it was my personal shopping assistant, like
Speaker 2: shopping concierge. Is this better than that? Why would I
Speaker 2: use this one over that one? Actually use those kind
Speaker 2: of questions and get it to tell you why i'd
Speaker 2: buy one thing over another. Like here's an example, I
Speaker 2: have an old PlayStation four. I don't game enough to
Speaker 2: warrant buying a PlayStation five, but I still look at
Speaker 2: a PlayStation five and I saw there's a PlayStation five pro,
Speaker 2: and it's like, what's the between that and the basics?
Speaker 2: And is it got to disk drive? All those kind
Speaker 2: of things. AI is really good to give you those
Speaker 2: easy comparisons. Other than that, what you're either going to
Speaker 2: do is either by the wrong one or you're going
Speaker 2: to spend an awful lot of time searching the internet.
Speaker 2: It's really useful for things that are really complicated, like
Speaker 2: TVs or washing machines. Like all the dad features on
Speaker 2: washing machines, I don't know what they are, and they
Speaker 2: go proprietary different names for the same thing as the
Speaker 2: other company. Get AI to sort the complexity out for
Speaker 2: you so you can then decide what you want to buy.
Speaker 1: And so you said Perplexity is your go to Why
Speaker 1: Perplexity over chat GPT because they both search the Internet?
Speaker 2: Yes they do. I prefer Perplexity for a couple of reasons.
Speaker 2: One is it's for me. It's been the granddaddy of
Speaker 2: the AI plus Internet together. The others added into Internet later,
Speaker 2: so it's almost like the Internet or an after thought
Speaker 2: as far as it goes. Because Perplexity is a bit
Speaker 2: like Google that searches the Internet, and it has indexes
Speaker 2: on the Internet and things like that. Under the hood,
Speaker 2: CHCHBT is simply using makes it's being. Under the hood,
Speaker 2: it'll run a being search and then read the top
Speaker 2: ten pages on being and give it back to you.
Speaker 2: Whereas perplexity is its own thing, it does its own searches.
Speaker 2: If you're a Google person and you love your Google ecosystem,
Speaker 2: Google's got an AI mode which does a really similar
Speaker 2: thing to perplexity, so give that a go as well.
Speaker 2: In fact, you what you might do is what I
Speaker 2: do is do an ab test. Try your prompt in perplexity,
Speaker 2: Try the same prompt in the AI mode on Google
Speaker 2: and see whether you get a different respots.
Speaker 1: And how do you access AI mode on Google? Because
Speaker 1: it's not to be confused with the AI overview that
Speaker 1: Google also gives if you're in normal Google dot com.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the with Google if you go to Google dot com,
Speaker 2: like not your address bar at the top and not
Speaker 2: the home page on your browser, like actually go to
Speaker 2: Google dot com, and you'll notice that in the search
Speaker 2: box in the middle of the page, on the right
Speaker 2: hand side, there's a thing that says AI mode, And
Speaker 2: when you click on that, it looks really similar to
Speaker 2: like Gemini and CHGPT, and it looks like a large
Speaker 2: language model. And with that AI mode you can give
Speaker 2: more background. What I mean by that is general searching
Speaker 2: on Google. You've got to use keyword search, so it
Speaker 2: might be best PlayStation Gaming twenty twenty five, something like
Speaker 2: you feel like you're a caveman, right, and you're giving
Speaker 2: keyword now go kind of thing, Whereas with the AI
Speaker 2: mode you can give more background. So you could say,
Speaker 2: I'm an occasional gamer, but I've got a whole bunch
Speaker 2: of PlayStation four discs, I want to play it on
Speaker 2: PlayStation five. How do I do that? Or I'm after
Speaker 2: a washing machine for a family of four, what's the
Speaker 2: best one to buy? Rather than just best washing machine
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five? Right, So AMI can take that context
Speaker 2: that does a much better job, but PERLEXI does the same.
Speaker 2: More context you can give it the better obviously thrown
Speaker 2: upload company documents if you're not allowed to.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk about saving money, because I think that
Speaker 1: that matters to everyone. So how do you use AI?
Speaker 1: Once you've decided on the product that you're buying to
Speaker 1: find the best price, what are you using and how
Speaker 1: are you prompting it?
Speaker 2: I go between AI mode on Google and also perplexity
Speaker 2: to find that best price. And so once I've decided
Speaker 2: what I want, So this streamer that I bought is
Speaker 2: the wim Ultra, believe it or not, and I was like,
Speaker 2: where do I buy it? And a win Ultra what's
Speaker 2: the best price? What's the best historical low price? So
Speaker 2: I've got those kind of things in there now. Interestingly enough,
Speaker 2: it gave me a bunch of retailers that I hadn't
Speaker 2: heard of. But then I was like, no, no, I want
Speaker 2: Australian ones. And it can then obviously refine down if
Speaker 2: you want to see something locally like a washing machine,
Speaker 2: maybe you want to see it, touch a play it,
Speaker 2: then go I only want Melbourne, or I only want
Speaker 2: Sydney or wherever you might live. Or you might say
Speaker 2: I've got a budget of this, find me products that
Speaker 2: fit that budget. Or it might be what's on special
Speaker 2: this month or what's the historical lows those kind of things,
Speaker 2: so you can work with it to get the kind
Speaker 2: of priced information that you want.
Speaker 1: I like the historical lows. How like, how would you
Speaker 1: use that if you wanted to buy something in the
Speaker 1: next couple of months and the historical low was I
Speaker 1: don't know, significantly less than it is now. Can you
Speaker 1: prompt the AI to tell you when to expect the
Speaker 1: next low or predict sales or anything like that.
Speaker 2: Well, that's a good one. You probably could. Like if
Speaker 2: the last historical low was of Black Friday sales, then
Speaker 2: it will probably predict it'll be the next Black Friday sales,
Speaker 2: so you could do that. Well, I'd probably use AIS
Speaker 2: if you don't need to buy that thing straight away.
Speaker 2: What you could do is get a scheduled prompt, So
Speaker 2: in chachipt and copilt and others, you can get it
Speaker 2: to do something every so often. So you might say,
Speaker 2: every week, I want you to search these eight websites
Speaker 2: for this product. If the price is below this price,
Speaker 2: then I want you to let me know or something that,
Speaker 2: or give me a list of the prices for this
Speaker 2: product across those ten retails or something like that. You'll
Speaker 2: then highlight that and then continue an email each day
Speaker 2: each week when it runs that prompt, So it's a
Speaker 2: scheduled prompt that you can do in CHETBT and in
Speaker 2: a copilot and others.
Speaker 1: Now, another way to save money is through discount codes.
Speaker 1: How are you using AI to help find those discount codes?
Speaker 2: Well, not everywhere has a discount code, as much as
Speaker 2: I want everywhere to have a discount code. And some
Speaker 2: of the discount codes they disappear, and they're old, all
Speaker 2: those kind of things. So the problem is finding them,
Speaker 2: and the problem is finding ones that are up to date.
Speaker 2: There are discount code websites, and I've found them to
Speaker 2: be scammy, spammy, discusting. Whatever. I've found just as good,
Speaker 2: if not better, using perplexity, better results using perplexity. So
Speaker 2: they still can be out of date, they still may
Speaker 2: not work, but at least you don't go through that
Speaker 2: scammy spamy stuff. And I find it's actually easier, better, faster.
Speaker 1: So what kind of a are you putting into perplexity
Speaker 1: to find good discount codes?
Speaker 2: Help me find discount codes for the retailer you've picked,
Speaker 2: or helped me find retailer discount codes for this product
Speaker 2: for this retailer or any retailer who can button, you know,
Speaker 2: sell this particular product. So if you're doing makeup, you
Speaker 2: might say ad or beauty. Maybe that's you know, to
Speaker 2: have a discount codes going at the moment or something,
Speaker 2: and they'll search a whole bunch of internet websites and
Speaker 2: social is the other cool thing about Perplexity. You can say,
Speaker 2: search social sources in particular, so whether that discount code's
Speaker 2: being shared on some kind of community forum, it would
Speaker 2: be more likely to pick those kind of things up.
Speaker 2: So yeah, you can find discount codes on Perplexity. Once again,
Speaker 2: not one hundred percent, but it's still pretty good.
Speaker 1: Amazing Leo, thank you so much for sharing how we
Speaker 1: can save money when we are going shopping. Lots of
Speaker 1: awesome tips that I hope maybe might save with some
Speaker 1: money today if you happen to be buying something. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening and we'll see you next
Speaker 1: time on how IAI. How IAI was hosted by me
Speaker 1: Amantha Imber and Neo Applan. A big thank you to
Speaker 1: Martin Imba who does our sound editing, and Jim Rubio
Speaker 1: for production support, and thank you to John Kilby who
Speaker 1: composed the theme music.