| Bot meets bottle: AI shines light on supplement shelves Overwhelmed by tinctures and capsules, the author turns to AI for guidance in the vitamin aisles. Then, he checks with a human expert to see how the advice stacks up. The result? Insights, laughs and caveats. | ||
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| When I'm staring at a grocery shelf trying to choose a canned tomato brand or a pint of plant-based gelato, my brain lights up. I size up the organic tomatoes and might hunt for Italian imports. Do I feel like pistachio or strawberry gelato tonight? Happy vibes prevail. But when I encounter the supplements section, the gleam dims. If a sigh could slip into jeans and a t-shirt and trudge down a grocery aisle, that'd be me. It's work. For me the supplement shelves stand as the store equivalent of an Excel spreadsheet—an eruption of dark, confusing things, on display. But just as I recently stalked the food aisles of the Natural Grocers store in Boulder with a bot by my side, asking it for details about everything from alt-milk to hot dogs, I also brought it along for a tour of Supplement Land. And just like that, the waltz through the province of pills and potions pivoted from spreadsheet to soirée. The chatbot made supplement shopping kinda fun. Continued below… |
