让AI智能体替你购物是一种奇特的体验。科技公司把它们宣传为个人助理——让通常只有权贵才能享有的劳动力服务大众化。
Using an AI agent to shop for you is a strange experience. Tech companies have marketed them as personal assistants - the democratizing of labor that ordinarily would only be available to the rich and powerful.
实际上，至少就买东西而言，这更像是派一个焦虑又满怀歉意的青少年去商店：它们需要大量指令和规格说明，经常遇到技术问题，带回来的方案又不完全是你想要的。
In practice, at least for buying things, it's more like sending an anxious and apologetic teenager out to the store: They require an inordinate amount of instructions and specifications, run into technical problems regularly, and come back with solutions that are not exactly what you asked for.
从技术上讲，它们确实完成了一项任务，只不过不是你要求的那项具体任务，而且往往也不是你会采用的方式……
They did, technically speaking, complete a task, just not the specific one you asked them to, and often not in the way you would have approach …