AI is picking out your strawberries

No one wants to go grocery shopping. It's all heavy carts, complex layouts, and unfathomable product placement decisions – why is the sherry vinegar next to the olive bar? The daunting, sisyphean task takes up enough time to make you resentful. Making you hate it less, and helping you find exactly what you're looking for, is Instacart's raison d'etre, says Jeremy Stanley, the company's VP of data science, and chief wielder of the machine learned algorthims behind the scenes. See the full line-up and grab last-minute tickets.] Instacart represents an advancement in online grocery shopping service: It gives you millions of products from hundreds of retail partners, and then hooks you up with a personal shopper who makes that grocery list land on your doorstep.