AI Shopping Assistant

May 19, Walmart is building an AI shopping assistant with the goal of automating the entire process from product search to checkout and payment, and completing almost all purchasing decisions without user intervention. Hari Vasudev, Walmart's U.S. chief technology officer, predicts that e-commerce will be fundamentally transformed when intelligences like the OpenAI Operator are able to fully automate the search-to-checkout process without requiring the user to visit the product page. To stay ahead of the competition, Walmart is developing intelligent assistants built into its apps and on the Web that can both...