Are you using AI / ChatGPT for travel planning and while travelling?

[dtienloi]

I had my first ever chat GPT or active AI use yesterday.

I’m in Saudi Arabia and was taking a Careem ( Uber- like) with a young bloke and I used Google Translate to say a few things to him through the phone.

He smiled and fiddled with his own phone and brought up a ChatGPT voice translator where we could simply speak and the thing would say the translation fairly promptly. Not quite, but almost a normal conversation.

This is ironic (for humanity, and for Google I suppose). If I remember correctly, the tech behind GPT-style AI (Transformer Neural Networks) were initially researched at Google, for translation purposes. Yet Google does not seem to bother to use it to improve Google Translate anymore.