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Amazon’s Shipping Algorithm Still Has Pockets Of ‘Artificial Stupidity’ (i.e., Opposite Of ‘AI’).

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by Anura Guruge
on April 26, 2024

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Amazon’s shipping REALLY hasn’t got that much better over the last 6 months — despite their claims that they are using more & more Artificial Intelligence (AI). They have got better at playing games.

The above was beyond stupid. I ordered 12 copies of the SAME BOOK (as author copies). They SPLIT the order in TWO. Yes, split it in TWO — but not even 6 + 6. Instead 11 + 1. They printed 11 in one location & ONE in another. Shipped them SEPARATELY.

How does that make SENSE?

Two shipping costs to THEM. Stupid.

This, alas, is NOT the only example. I have talked about others too. See below.

From late last year.

Click to ENLARGE. Post from 4-months ago. You can, EASILY, see the STUPIDITY.

From May 20, 2023. An even earlier post.

This is beyond CRAZY.

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What Am I To Make Of This Automated Recommendation From Amazon’s Artificial Intelligence? Too Clever By Half Or Rather Hair-Brained?

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by Anura Guruge
on June 23, 2021

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This was in my e-mail this morning. It did make me smile.

Of course I was going to like it. I wrote it. My first book. Unlikely that I would not like it.

So, what was Amazon’s AI thinking?

That, alas, is always the problem with AI (& I speak as one who was into AI in the 1970s & 1980s). AI still has to be taught …

So, the AI algorithms here do not appear to check who the author is.

Yes, us authors are still a minority compared to the millions who buy books. So, the chances of Amazon’s AI recommending an author’s own book to the author are rare. But, it would only take a few lines of code to stop it.

I know why I got the recommendation. A couple of weeks ago I was searching for this book on Amazon because I wanted to grab the cover image for my new ‘book’ page. That was all that Amazon saw. That I had searched for it. That I was the author did not cross its ‘mind’. That, alas, is still the pitfall of AI. The mind is so hard to emulate.