讲解人 · Jamie
原文
Although AI-powered purchases are in early stages, the shopping assistants and agents rolled out by the likes of Walmart, Amazon and Google can do more than the chatbots of holidays past.
Here are three ways the technology is poised to influence holiday shopping habits in 2025:
Bypassing the search bar
AI’s potential to simplify the search for the perfect present is most apparent so far in tools that promise to give shoppers faster and more detailed results than a web browser with a lot fewer clicks.
OpenAI upgraded ChatGPT with a shopping research feature that provides personalized buyers’ guides.
The information comes from product pages, reviews, prices and a user’s previous interactions with the chatbot.
New pricing tools and alerts
Tools for tracking online prices have been around for years.
This holiday season, shoppers have new options.
Amazon launched a 90-day pricing history tracker this month for virtually everything it sells.
Shoppers also now can set up alerts to receive notifications when prices on specific items fall within their budgets.
Google, which for years had a basic price tracker, launched a more advanced version that lets users refine their requests with details like a garment’s size and color.
New ways to buy
Amazon, OpenAI and Google are racing to create tools that would allow for seamless AI-powered shopping by taking consumers from browsing to buying within the same program.
OpenAI launched a new instant checkout feature that lets users buy products suggested by ChatGPT without leaving the app.
带着问题听讲解
- 如何理解 augmented 这个词？
- 今年哪些企业在假日季推出了更为强大的聊天机器人功能？
- 人工智能什么方面的能力于各类工具中体现得最为明显？
讲解
重点词汇
be the talk of something or somewhere
成为（某地或某个群体）议论的话题
- 例句：Her behaviour is the talk of the office.
in time
及时
- 搭配短语：in time for sth.（及时赶上某事）
- 例句：I arrived just in time for my flight to London.
augmented
/ɔːgˈmentɪd/
adj. 扩大了的，增加了的
- 搭配短语：to augment the family income（增加家庭的收入）
搭配短语：Augmented Reality（AR，增强现实技术）搭配短语：an augmented share（增加的份额）- 例句：The store got an augmented share of customers through promotions.
roll out
推出（新产品）
- 例句：The mobile phone brand will roll out a new model next week.近义词：launch
the likes of
像……这样的人（或物）
- 例句：I like coffee from the likes of Starbucks and Luckin.例句：They're competing with the likes of Microsoft.
poised
/pɔɪzd/
adj. 准备就绪的
- 搭配短语：be poised for sth.（为某事做好准备）
- 近义短语：be ready for sth.
- 例句：The president was poised for the visit.
搭配短语：be poised to do sth.（准备好做某事，某个趋势、事件即将发生）- 例句：New energy vehicles are poised to change people's way of travel.
bypass
/ˈbaɪ.pæs/
v. 绕过，避开
- 相关词汇：by（prep. 在旁边）相关词汇：pass（v. 经过）搭配短语：to bypass the traffic jam（避开交通拥堵）搭配短语：to bypass the complicated registration steps（绕过复杂的注册步骤）
simplify
/ˈsɪm.plə.faɪ/
v. 使简化
- 相关词汇：simple（adj. 简单的）词根词缀：-ify（动词词缀，表示“使成为”）搭配短语：to simplify the process（简化流程）例句：Modern technology has greatly simplified housework.
interaction
/ˌɪn.tər’æk.ʃən/
n. 交流
- 词根词缀：inter-（表示“相互之间”）相关词汇：action（n. 行动）搭配短语：human-computer interaction（人机交互）
alert
/ə’lɜ:t/
n. 警报，警示
- 搭配短语：a fire alert（火警警报）搭配短语：to give or sound the alert（发出警报）搭配短语：emergency alerts（紧急警报）
around
/ə’raʊnd/
adv. 早已存在；早就有了；在附近
- 搭配短语：have been around for years（已经存在很多年了）例句：This old craft has been around for decades.
virtually
/‘vɜ:.tju.ə.li/
adv. 几乎，实际上
- 例句：Virtually everyone in this town knows each other.
refine
/rɪ’faɪn/
v. 改进，完善；提纯，精炼
- 搭配短语：to refine sugar（提纯蔗糖）例句：We need to refine this plan.搭配短语：to refine product functions（细化产品功能）
garment
/ˈɡɑːr.mənt/
n.（一件）衣服
- 近义词：clothes
seamless
/ˈsiːm.ləs/
adj. 流畅的，浑然一体的
- 相关词汇：seam（n. 接缝、缝线）词根词缀：-less（表示“没有......的”）搭配短语：a seamless experience from browsing to buying（从浏览到下单的无缝体验）
instant
/ˈɪn.stənt/
adj. 立即的，即刻的
- 搭配短语：instant messages（即时消息）搭配短语：instant feedback（即时反馈）
