If you’re like me, you dread shopping every Christmas because it’s a bit of a nightmare to figure out what everyone wants. In your price range, you don’t know what people want. If you find out, there’s no easy way to make sure they didn’t buy it on their own, or someone else didn’t get it for them. Adds to the nightmare by selecting sizes and colors.

These issues are not limited to Christmas either, as there are the same issues of gift selection for birthdays, graduations, and other occasions. It’s just not something we do well to create and maintain multiple gift lists and keep them up-to-date. Nonetheless, we could be fixed by one of the big Internet providers. That’s what happened to me last week, and I want to share with you the good news.

I’m going to close with my weekly product: the Kindle Fire Tablet, the tool I use more than my smartphone to help keep me healthy (some might say it’s too late).

How AI Implementations Can Fix Donation

I will concentrate on retail services such as Amazon because it would be easier for a retail company to do that, as it already has both the necessary information and the highest gift range.

What an oriented artificial intelligence program does is use massive amounts of data to answer difficult questions, and what to get for a gift from someone else is one of the more difficult ones. Even asking does not necessarily work because your intended recipient could have given it other people the same answer, decided to buy the item or failed to express the exact size, color, or configuration they desired.

A robust company like Amazon knows the size of its customers, what they’ve ordered in the past, who else has purchased a particular product, and where it’s been sent. It also has a list of interests for its shoppers and buying habits, so it can also deduce what a gift recipient might want

.The program will work like this: you and the gifts you regularly give will agree to network and share information about future contributions. Three thirds I’d suggest:

Tier one would-be partners and other important ones, because sometimes such gifts wander into places that we want to be extremely private.

The immediate family, parents, children, and siblings would be the second tier.

Friends and distant relatives would be the third tier. Now you could see their gift wants and needs, and they would see yours, but without the prior permission of all related parties, they would not immediately see each other.

Approvals would be bidirectional, meaning that both parties would have to agree to share, and the person sharing the information would select the tier for the viewing rights of the other person.

Each year you’d get an auto-populated annual survey of what Amazon already knows about you, and you’d be able to make changes and add or delete items from a list of options given to create a full list. Nobody should ever start from scratch this way, and from year to year, the company will remember your inputs.

The plan would be the only other piece of information you would provide. You could set a total number of expenditures, and then the program could make granular calculations, and you could change up to or down. Automatic changes are intended to ensure that your budget has not been surpassed. (If you tried to bypass your budget number, but the program will try to keep you there.)

The AI will take over and make recommendations for each of the beneficiaries after you completed the survey. It would produce a gift card to guarantee that no one has more than once the same present unless the recipient chose more than one.

One of my favorite gifts to get from the Olson farms, for example, is dark chocolate covered apricots. (See how I worked in it?) I may set a limit of 3 or 4 boxes for that.

The outcome of the CEO

CEOs used to have it handled by their assistants. They would give them a list of people and a budget to get gifts. The secretaries would do all the research and produce documents that could be replied to by the execs if they wanted to know what they were offering.

You’d put in your budget with the app I’m imagining, delineate how much of it you wanted to go to each level, and the AI would produce a result you could approve or change. It would also auto-generate gift cards you could edit or accept, and then you would hit “buy,” and all your Christmas shopping would end in minutes instead of hours.

Another choice would be to notify the recipients of the intended gift’s cash value and allow them to take a loan. That would encourage them to get some more valuable tips from several people. Without all the current aggravation, it would work like a gift card. Many people are more likely to be shocked, but others may prefer fewer, better presents.

It could quickly scale this service for birthdays or weddings. For example, it could automatically generate a wedding registry based on what it learned from the couple’s wishes and needs for Christmas and birthday over the years.

Another way to go

There is an inherent conflict with having this done by a company like Amazon, as it would want you to surpass your target, and it would encourage you to upsell.

Even if this was done by a company such as Angie’s List or Consumer Reports? You are more interested in renewing your subscription to their service and would probably point out better values or lower-cost alternatives and help you achieve your goals while reducing your spending.

If that were what the recipient would want, they would be more likely to suggest green gifts or contributions on behalf of the recipient to charity.

To wrap up

AIs are profiling us. They’re used to micro-targeting us to either get our cash for something we don’t want or get our vote for someone we don’t like

Why not use this technology to help us make the process both less time-consuming and more accessible with some of the problems associated with gift-giving? How about an AI that would help us have happier holidays, and those that we gave to?

Oh, and it could also delay sales until a particular product went on sale, or it could bundle buyers ‘ transactions to get volume discounts. In short, a less stressful, safer, the cheaper approach could be provided by the system. I think that having an AI on our side would be a nice change

Right now, the Amazon Fire HD10 tablet has to be one of the best bargains in the market, on sale for less than US$ 100 for the 32-GB model with targeted ads (which only appear on the boot screen).

Amazon significantly increased this product’s battery life and also raised the weight a little bit. But, apart from my laptop, this is the one thing that goes with me everywhere I go — and I use more of this tablet.

I use it for both reading my books and watching my favorite shows, including Yancy Derringer, Wyatt Earp, The Expanse, Teen Titans live-action, and Street Outlaws. (I’ve got eclectic tastes).

This is a godsend on long trips because you can download content to it, and you don’t have to rely on the airline range that offers you or the lousy TV that you usually end up with overseas.

Battery life seems to be about 2x what the Fire tablet’s latest version has, and you can trade-in your old tablet to get an extra discount. This newest version has a USB-C connector, so you can use the same charger you’re applying for your Android phone (although Apple users will need a separate charger or charging cable).

It has a lifetime of the battery up to 12 hours, weighing 17.8 ounces. It has an eight-core Dolby Atmos audio, 1080p full HD resolution, and two 720p lenses. One thing I do with it is wirelessly connected it to the car stereo and watch my shows when listening through the car speakers when waiting in the car (and now I always choose to remain in the car while my wife shops, which saves a fantastic amount of money).

Outlook can be loaded, and email addressed. You can browse the internet. The Amazon store will run an impressive number of Android apps.

You would be hard-pressed to find a better value than a 10-inch laptop for less than $100. Nearly everywhere I go, as long as I have my Fire HD tablet, I’m content, so the Amazon Fire HD10 tablet is my week’s purchase. (Oh, and it even comes in purple!!!)