WEBVTT - How to use AI to save money shopping

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<v Speaker 1>If you've ever spent hours researching a purchase only to

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<v Speaker 1>still feel unsure or worse, realize later that you paid

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<v Speaker 1>too much, this episode is for you. Shopping has become

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<v Speaker 1>more complex, more time consuming, and more expensive than it

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<v Speaker 1>needs to be. In this how AAI episode, Neo and

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<v Speaker 1>I get practical about how to use AI as your

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<v Speaker 1>personal shopping assistant. You'll learn how to compare products without

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<v Speaker 1>drowning inspects, cut through biased reviews, find the best price

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<v Speaker 1>and discount codes, and even set up AI to watch

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<v Speaker 1>prices for you so that you can buy with confidence

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<v Speaker 1>and save money without the overwhelm. Welcome to how IAI

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<v Speaker 1>with me Doctor Amantha Imber and Neo Applin, head of

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<v Speaker 1>Inventium AI. Each episode we share one practical way to

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<v Speaker 1>use AI better at work and in life. No fluff,

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<v Speaker 1>no tech jargon, just things you can use straight away.

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<v Speaker 1>So we are recording this a few weeks after Christmas

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<v Speaker 1>break and I think it's fair to say that a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of people do a lot of shopping over that

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<v Speaker 1>time of year or this time of year. And I

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<v Speaker 1>know that you and I, Neo both use AI a

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<v Speaker 1>lot in helping us make good decisions with shopping and

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<v Speaker 1>importantly saving money. So let's talk through your journey of

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<v Speaker 1>buying something. What do you want to use as an example?

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<v Speaker 1>What is something that you've recently bought and used AI

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<v Speaker 1>for that process.

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<v Speaker 2>I've been looking for the last two or three months

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<v Speaker 2>for a music streamer, So it's like a sonassy thing.

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<v Speaker 2>I've got an amp I've had for ten years or

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<v Speaker 2>something like that, but I want to be able to

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<v Speaker 2>stream from my phone to this amp through a box. Great.

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<v Speaker 2>There are so many of these on the market, and

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know which one's good. I don't know which

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<v Speaker 2>was bad, or where you buy them from, which features

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<v Speaker 2>they got, what kind of plugs they've got, all those

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<v Speaker 2>kind of things. I use Perplexity a lot for that.

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<v Speaker 2>I used some of the other adels for someone, but

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<v Speaker 2>I found Perplexity was awesome for comparing these two different products,

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<v Speaker 2>comparing social reviews on these things, which one should I get,

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<v Speaker 2>pros and cons all those kind of things. So for

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<v Speaker 2>researching of what product you need to solve your problem,

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<v Speaker 2>because that's generally what I am buying, then AI is

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<v Speaker 2>amazing for that.

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<v Speaker 1>So what can you give me examples of the types

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<v Speaker 1>of prompts that you're putting in and also what you're

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<v Speaker 1>getting perplexity to search, because I know that you can

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<v Speaker 1>have it search the Internet, you can have it search

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<v Speaker 1>social media media. So take us through in more detail

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<v Speaker 1>how you're using it there.

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<v Speaker 2>Yep, So it might be here's the problem I've got,

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<v Speaker 2>what could I use to solve it? Or what are

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<v Speaker 2>other people doing to solve that kind of problem? So

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<v Speaker 2>it's like at the start of your journey. Really good

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<v Speaker 2>for those kind of things. When you're starting to find

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<v Speaker 2>a couple of products, then I would do a comparison.

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<v Speaker 2>So I've got here, what's the in between product A

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<v Speaker 2>and product B, and Perplexity will compare that. Often it

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<v Speaker 2>puts it in a table, which I really like to

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<v Speaker 2>be able to say different prices, different features, different versions.

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<v Speaker 2>Really good for software comparison as well, like if I'm

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<v Speaker 2>going to buy software A or software B, what does

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<v Speaker 2>it have? Those kind of things I from bringing a

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<v Speaker 2>solution C into the mix and then have a discussion

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<v Speaker 2>with AI like it was my personal shopping assistant, like

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<v Speaker 2>shopping concierge. Is this better than that? Why would I

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<v Speaker 2>use this one over that one? Actually use those kind

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<v Speaker 2>of questions and get it to tell you why i'd

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<v Speaker 2>buy one thing over another. Like here's an example, I

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<v Speaker 2>have an old PlayStation four. I don't game enough to

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<v Speaker 2>warrant buying a PlayStation five, but I still look at

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<v Speaker 2>a PlayStation five and I saw there's a PlayStation five pro,

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<v Speaker 2>and it's like, what's the between that and the basics?

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<v Speaker 2>And is it got to disk drive? All those kind

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<v Speaker 2>of things. AI is really good to give you those

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<v Speaker 2>easy comparisons. Other than that, what you're either going to

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<v Speaker 2>do is either by the wrong one or you're going

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<v Speaker 2>to spend an awful lot of time searching the internet.

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<v Speaker 2>It's really useful for things that are really complicated, like

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<v Speaker 2>TVs or washing machines. Like all the dad features on

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<v Speaker 2>washing machines, I don't know what they are, and they

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<v Speaker 2>go proprietary different names for the same thing as the

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<v Speaker 2>other company. Get AI to sort the complexity out for

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<v Speaker 2>you so you can then decide what you want to buy.

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<v Speaker 1>And so you said Perplexity is your go to Why

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<v Speaker 1>Perplexity over chat GPT because they both search the Internet?

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<v Speaker 2>Yes they do. I prefer Perplexity for a couple of reasons.

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<v Speaker 2>One is it's for me. It's been the granddaddy of

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<v Speaker 2>the AI plus Internet together. The others added into Internet later,

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<v Speaker 2>so it's almost like the Internet or an after thought

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<v Speaker 2>as far as it goes. Because Perplexity is a bit

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<v Speaker 2>like Google that searches the Internet, and it has indexes

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<v Speaker 2>on the Internet and things like that. Under the hood,

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<v Speaker 2>CHCHBT is simply using makes it's being. Under the hood,

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<v Speaker 2>it'll run a being search and then read the top

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<v Speaker 2>ten pages on being and give it back to you.

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<v Speaker 2>Whereas perplexity is its own thing, it does its own searches.

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<v Speaker 2>If you're a Google person and you love your Google ecosystem,

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<v Speaker 2>Google's got an AI mode which does a really similar

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<v Speaker 2>thing to perplexity, so give that a go as well.

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<v Speaker 2>In fact, you what you might do is what I

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<v Speaker 2>do is do an ab test. Try your prompt in perplexity,

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<v Speaker 2>Try the same prompt in the AI mode on Google

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<v Speaker 2>and see whether you get a different respots.

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<v Speaker 1>And how do you access AI mode on Google? Because

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<v Speaker 1>it's not to be confused with the AI overview that

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<v Speaker 1>Google also gives if you're in normal Google dot com.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, the with Google if you go to Google dot com,

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<v Speaker 2>like not your address bar at the top and not

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<v Speaker 2>the home page on your browser, like actually go to

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<v Speaker 2>Google dot com, and you'll notice that in the search

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<v Speaker 2>box in the middle of the page, on the right

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<v Speaker 2>hand side, there's a thing that says AI mode, And

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<v Speaker 2>when you click on that, it looks really similar to

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<v Speaker 2>like Gemini and CHGPT, and it looks like a large

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<v Speaker 2>language model. And with that AI mode you can give

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<v Speaker 2>more background. What I mean by that is general searching

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<v Speaker 2>on Google. You've got to use keyword search, so it

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<v Speaker 2>might be best PlayStation Gaming twenty twenty five, something like

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<v Speaker 2>you feel like you're a caveman, right, and you're giving

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<v Speaker 2>keyword now go kind of thing, Whereas with the AI

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<v Speaker 2>mode you can give more background. So you could say,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm an occasional gamer, but I've got a whole bunch

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<v Speaker 2>of PlayStation four discs, I want to play it on

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<v Speaker 2>PlayStation five. How do I do that? Or I'm after

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<v Speaker 2>a washing machine for a family of four, what's the

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<v Speaker 2>best one to buy? Rather than just best washing machine

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<v Speaker 2>twenty twenty five? Right, So AMI can take that context

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<v Speaker 2>that does a much better job, but PERLEXI does the same.

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<v Speaker 2>More context you can give it the better obviously thrown

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<v Speaker 2>upload company documents if you're not allowed to.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, let's talk about saving money, because I think that

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<v Speaker 1>that matters to everyone. So how do you use AI?

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<v Speaker 1>Once you've decided on the product that you're buying to

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<v Speaker 1>find the best price, what are you using and how

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<v Speaker 1>are you prompting it?

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<v Speaker 2>I go between AI mode on Google and also perplexity

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<v Speaker 2>to find that best price. And so once I've decided

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<v Speaker 2>what I want, So this streamer that I bought is

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<v Speaker 2>the wim Ultra, believe it or not, and I was like,

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<v Speaker 2>where do I buy it? And a win Ultra what's

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<v Speaker 2>the best price? What's the best historical low price? So

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<v Speaker 2>I've got those kind of things in there now. Interestingly enough,

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<v Speaker 2>it gave me a bunch of retailers that I hadn't

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<v Speaker 2>heard of. But then I was like, no, no, I want

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<v Speaker 2>Australian ones. And it can then obviously refine down if

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<v Speaker 2>you want to see something locally like a washing machine,

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<v Speaker 2>maybe you want to see it, touch a play it,

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<v Speaker 2>then go I only want Melbourne, or I only want

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<v Speaker 2>Sydney or wherever you might live. Or you might say

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<v Speaker 2>I've got a budget of this, find me products that

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<v Speaker 2>fit that budget. Or it might be what's on special

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<v Speaker 2>this month or what's the historical lows those kind of things,

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<v Speaker 2>so you can work with it to get the kind

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<v Speaker 2>of priced information that you want.

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<v Speaker 1>I like the historical lows. How like, how would you

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<v Speaker 1>use that if you wanted to buy something in the

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<v Speaker 1>next couple of months and the historical low was I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know, significantly less than it is now. Can you

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<v Speaker 1>prompt the AI to tell you when to expect the

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<v Speaker 1>next low or predict sales or anything like that.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, that's a good one. You probably could. Like if

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<v Speaker 2>the last historical low was of Black Friday sales, then

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<v Speaker 2>it will probably predict it'll be the next Black Friday sales,

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<v Speaker 2>so you could do that. Well, I'd probably use AIS

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<v Speaker 2>if you don't need to buy that thing straight away.

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<v Speaker 2>What you could do is get a scheduled prompt, So

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<v Speaker 2>in chachipt and copilt and others, you can get it

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<v Speaker 2>to do something every so often. So you might say,

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<v Speaker 2>every week, I want you to search these eight websites

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<v Speaker 2>for this product. If the price is below this price,

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<v Speaker 2>then I want you to let me know or something that,

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<v Speaker 2>or give me a list of the prices for this

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<v Speaker 2>product across those ten retails or something like that. You'll

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<v Speaker 2>then highlight that and then continue an email each day

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<v Speaker 2>each week when it runs that prompt, So it's a

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<v Speaker 2>scheduled prompt that you can do in CHETBT and in

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<v Speaker 2>a copilot and others.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, another way to save money is through discount codes.

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<v Speaker 1>How are you using AI to help find those discount codes?

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<v Speaker 2>Well, not everywhere has a discount code, as much as

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<v Speaker 2>I want everywhere to have a discount code. And some

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<v Speaker 2>of the discount codes they disappear, and they're old, all

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<v Speaker 2>those kind of things. So the problem is finding them,

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<v Speaker 2>and the problem is finding ones that are up to date.

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<v Speaker 2>There are discount code websites, and I've found them to

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<v Speaker 2>be scammy, spammy, discusting. Whatever. I've found just as good,

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<v Speaker 2>if not better, using perplexity, better results using perplexity. So

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<v Speaker 2>they still can be out of date, they still may

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<v Speaker 2>not work, but at least you don't go through that

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<v Speaker 2>scammy spamy stuff. And I find it's actually easier, better, faster.

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<v Speaker 1>So what kind of a are you putting into perplexity

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<v Speaker 1>to find good discount codes?

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<v Speaker 2>Help me find discount codes for the retailer you've picked,

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<v Speaker 2>or helped me find retailer discount codes for this product

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<v Speaker 2>for this retailer or any retailer who can button, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>sell this particular product. So if you're doing makeup, you

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<v Speaker 2>might say ad or beauty. Maybe that's you know, to

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<v Speaker 2>have a discount codes going at the moment or something,

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<v Speaker 2>and they'll search a whole bunch of internet websites and

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<v Speaker 2>social is the other cool thing about Perplexity. You can say,

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<v Speaker 2>search social sources in particular, so whether that discount code's

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<v Speaker 2>being shared on some kind of community forum, it would

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<v Speaker 2>be more likely to pick those kind of things up.

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<v Speaker 2>So yeah, you can find discount codes on Perplexity. Once again,

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<v Speaker 2>not one hundred percent, but it's still pretty good.

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<v Speaker 1>Amazing Leo, thank you so much for sharing how we

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<v Speaker 1>can save money when we are going shopping. Lots of

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<v Speaker 1>awesome tips that I hope maybe might save with some

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<v Speaker 1>money today if you happen to be buying something. Thank you.

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<v Speaker 1>time on how IAI. How IAI was hosted by me

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<v Speaker 1>Amantha Imber and Neo Applan. A big thank you to

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