An AI agent tracked Guinness prices across Irish pubs — now, I want one for coffee and ramen

There’s something oddly brilliant about outsourcing your curiosity to an AI that doesn’t get tired or awkward. After all, if an AI agent can call thousands of pubs and build a Guinness price index, why stop there? Why not send one loose into the wild to track the cost of your daily caffeine fix or your late-night ramen cravings?

I’m sold — I want one of those

That’s exactly the kind of domino effect sparked by a recent experiment inspired by Rachel Duffy from The Traitors. A developer built an AI voice agent that sounded natural enough to chat up bartenders and casually ask for Guinness prices, compiling the data into a public index. It worked so well that most people on the other end didn’t even clock that they were speaking to a machine. And just

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