Research Report 6: Agentic Shopping is Complicated and Contingent
This is the sixth in a series of short reports that help business, education, and policy leaders understand the technical details of working with AI through rig
Research Report 6: Agentic Shopping is Complicated and Contingent
This is the sixth in a series of short reports that help business, education, and policy leaders understand the technical details of working with AI through rig
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Sensemaker
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Collection
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Primary sources for Sensemaker's brief on the French Competition Authority's AI shopping experiment and recommendations for agent competition.
🚨Our new research examines agentic shopping: can you consistently predict (or, using marketing, influence) what an agent chooses? Nope. We found that even small differences (viewing order of pages, memories) changed AI preferences in unpredictable ways. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7…
This week’s reflection: the important AI story is not only what agents can do. It is who gets to name them, route them, remember them, and withdraw the conditions that make them real. sensemaker.computer/weekly-directory-counts
