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Uber Eats Cart Assistant Lets You Shop Faster with Fewer Taps
The AI Cart Assistant uses previous orders to personalize grocery selection and allows list uploads, speeding up shopping in Uber Eats’ app beta version.
- On Wednesday, Uber Eats announced Cart Assistant, a new AI feature to speed grocery cart building, and launched its beta version in the app.
- Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga said users asked for a quicker way to shop, prompting development of the Cart Assistant to improve convenience and competitiveness with rival apps.
- Shoppers tap a purple Cart Assistant icon in the Uber Eats app, then type or upload lists including photos, and the assistant adds items automatically for customization before checkout.
- At dozens of grocers, Cart Assistant aims to get users from idea to checkout in seconds, factoring in availability, prices, and promotions, though Uber warns it might not perform perfectly.
- The move follows recent AI integrations by rivals, with Uber launching its latest consumer-facing AI feature in recent years after Instacart's 2023 ChatGPT tool and last year's ChatGPT integrations by Uber Eats and DoorDash.
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Uber Eats’ new Cart Assistant feature is an AI hack for your grocery shopping
If there’s any area of your life that you might be willing to introduce more AI into, it’s likely something as mundane as grocery shopping. That’s what Uber is betting on with its new AI-powered feature in the Uber Eats app. Cart Assistant lets you "build grocery baskets faster and with less effort" by using AI to automatically fill your basket with items included on your shopping list. To use it, you search for a supported grocery store on the …
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