MercadonIA, the ChatGPT with Mercadona products that makes recipes and shopping lists according to budget

The AI ​​revolution may be in the little things. Or perhaps, in the most practical ideas. It is the case of MercadonIA, a personalized version of chatGPT to become an expert in all Mercadona products. You can create recipes and shopping lists on a budget.

MercadonIA uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT to offer help with a gluten-free dinner recipe, a weekly menu with Hacendado products without preservatives for 50 euros, or a diet of 2,000 Kilocalories daily, as natural as possible. You can ask him whatever you want.

While technology companies insist on offering us functions to replace us, such as writing an email or summarizing school work, the true value of artificial intelligence lies in practical aids, such as preventing us from having to review the entire catalog of Mercadonato optimize the purchase.

This is how MercadonIA, Mercadona’s ChatGPT, works

It must be clarified that this GPT It is not an official Mercadona tool. It has been created by the specialized cloud engineer, Juan Carlos Cavero,

What he has done has been train a ChatGPT agent with all the data from the Mercadona online supermarketincluding prices, links, and nutritional data.

The work has been complicated, because Mercadona does not have integrated nutritional data, it only shows a photo of the label. So he has had to OCR (convert photo data into text) more than 6,000 images.

In the tests I have carried out, it has worked quite well. As seen in the image above, I have asked for a Shopping list for a weekly menu with a budget of 70 euros.

MercadonIA has prepared a shopping list to eat throughout the week, worth 69.86 euros. It is true that it only contains basic products (rice, chicken, eggs, milk, etc.), but it meets the request.

Besides includes direct links to the Mercadona online supermarketin case you want to buy the products.

I have also asked him the following: “Give me three recipes for three meals for two people with a budget of 20 euros“.

He offered me a recipe for Brown rice with vegetables and egg (1.38 euros), Baked hake with potatoes and spinach (4 euros) and Complete salad with chicken and chickpeas (4.15 euros). It also explains how to prepare them.

It is true that the budget has not been adjusted here, there are 10 euros left over, but MercadonIA explains the reason: “This leaves room in the budget for adjustments or extras such as bread, fruits or desserts.” So, again, he has delivered. Because it is true that you have to buy bread or fruit for a complete menu.

In the case of recipes, it generates the budget per piece, but many products are not sold individually. For example, it values ​​200 grams of brown rice at 35 euro cents, which is correct, but you cannot buy 200 grams, you have to buy the one kilo package.

Even so, MercadonIA, the ChatGPT trained with all Mercadona products, turns out to be quite useful and practicalconsidering that it is free. You can try it at this link GPT MercadonIAalthough you may need a free OpenAI account.

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