Uber Eats adds AI assistant to help with grocery shopping
Uber announced a new AI feature called "Cart Assistant" for grocery shopping in its Uber Eats app.
The new feature works a couple different ways. You can use text prompts, as you would with any other AI chatbot, to ask it to build a grocery list for you. Or you can upload a picture of your shopping list and ask it to populate your cart with all your favorite items, based on your order history. You can be as generic as you - "milk, eggs, cereal" - and the bot will make a list with all your preferred brands.
And that's just to start out. Uber says in the coming months, Cart Assistant will add more features, including "full recipe inspiratio …