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BIZARRE: Ai personal shoppers hunt down bargain buys - What They Never Told You

Google advertising and commerce vice president Vidhya Srinivasan shows a new shopping feature that uses artificial intelligence to enable people to virtually try on clothes using their own pictures of themselves (Credit: AFP)

Internet giants are diving deeper into e-commerce with digital aides that know shoppers' likes, let them virtually try clothes on, hunt for deals and even place orders.

The rise of virtual personal shoppers springs from generative artificial intelligence (AI) being put to work in "agents" specializing in specific tasks and given autonomy to complete them independently.

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