Sell our stuff on Marketplace across a language barrier

Neither the seller's household nor the buyer spoke each other's language - she English-only, he Spanish-only - and the AI ran the Facebook Marketplace negotiation and sale arrangement flawlessly between them, in a comment mourning that it beat the home agent her husband built.

How it works

List the items on Marketplace
Buyer replies in Spanish
The AI translates and negotiates
Sale arranged
Pickup agreed

Why it’s worth knowing

A complete negotiation where neither human could read the other's messages - the agent was the only bilingual party in the deal.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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