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

[ccflyer]

I’ve actually started using AI quite a bit for travel stuff.
Mostly for planning routes, comparing flight options, rough itineraries. It’s handy just to get a quick overview before locking anything in properly.
Is able to help you plan and maximize more efficiently.
Still double check everything, but as a planning tool it’s been pretty useful for me so far.

 

[exceladdict]

I've noticed claude offers a connector for kiwi and lastminute - i wonder if an AI could plug into ita matrix...

 

[Pele]

It is beyond useless for finding good airfares.

 

[dairyfloss]

It ain’t for me, but I guess some will find this helpful: https://www.businesstraveller.com/news/accor-launches-loyalty-app-within-chatgpt/

 

[RooFlyer]

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.

 

[Scarlett]

ChatGPT is a babel fish?

 

[Pushka]

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.

Ah. So a tiny bit of conversion there? Of course ChatGPT has its fails, but get it right (and that's also user training as well to get it to operate properly) and I use it almost every day. It's also killing tech companies like Atalassian as we speak. We used it in Japan for written language esp in supermarkets.

 

[RooFlyer]

Ah. So a tiny bit of conversion there?

I suppose if I last long enough I might be dragged kicking and screaming into the technology. But for that good experience in the Careem I have lots and lots of stupid experiences with the bots and auto responses and offers for AI to summarise a two line email I received.

 

[Pushka]

I suppose if I last long enough I might be dragged kicking and screaming into the technology. But for that good experience in the Careem I have lots and lots of stupid experiences with the bots and auto responses and offers for AI to summarise a two line email I received.

I use it when I just want an answer to an issue, eg plumbing was the one yesterday and I wanted to know SA legislation etc etc. Chat knows me by now because of previous chats so zooms immediately into SA legislation and so on. And it was spot on as confirmed by the plumber today. It helps you to ask the right questions from tradies and not get bamboolzed into having something done that isn't necessary.

Used it heaps for Japan and it's helpful for a trip to Thailand next month advising distances and opening hours etc etc. Yes I could google but one question in chat and it's all done. Helps you get the right order of places so you don't waste time backtracking.

But what's this age thing? I'm older than you and I've been using it for over a year now. I do have to tell it off sometimes as my questions weren't specific enough.

 

[StayGoldPonyboy]

. It's also killing tech companies like Atalassian as we speak.

It's replacing Jira, or another product??

 

[dajop]

Always be wary, I gave ChatGPT a task to find something out (getting an email receipt from a rideshare app, which I couldn't see how on the app) and it gave incorrect advice a couple of times.

Are you sure this is correct?

Great question—and you’re right to challenge that.
I double-checked, and the “Send receipt to email” button is not reliably present in the Ryde Singapore iOS app. My earlier suggestion was based on generic ride-hailing patterns and some third-party documentation, and that was misleading in this context—thank you for flagging it.
Let me correct this clearly and precisely.

with option B there is no "Contact support" option after selecting the ride. Are you sure this is correct?

You’re correct again—your experience is consistent with how Ryde actually works.
The wording I gave earlier (“Contact support” after selecting the ride) was too literal and misleading for the Ryde iOS UI. Ryde’s own documentation is generic and doesn’t match the exact labels you see in the app.

 

[VPS]

It's replacing Jira, or another product??

Supposedly they think it might but not sure how

 

[clifford]

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

NO

 

[Pushka]

Always be wary, I gave ChatGPT a task to find something out (getting an email receipt from a rideshare app, which I couldn't see how on the app) and it gave incorrect advice a couple of times.

Yes. Agree it doesn’t do well sometimes. Apparently the more risk you raise - eg this information is vital to my family - then the better it performs.

 

[exceladdict]

It's replacing Jira, or another product??

Supposedly they think it might but not sure how

I've been trying to make a second, more complex (architecturally) app using Claude (as Claude code in vscode). Either I'm not using it properly, or it is not yet doing quite what I am looking for in terms of holding long term context, bug/fix/issue/feature tracking and management, etc.

Until the bots interface directly with these systems and work at things until they're done, we are going to need BAs and Product Managers... And testers, of course! And so the software that supports those functions working together probably has a few years in it at least.

 

[StayGoldPonyboy]

I've been trying to make a second, more complex (architecturally) app using Claude (as Claude code in vscode). Either I'm not using it properly, or it is not yet doing quite what I am looking for in terms of holding long term context, bug/fix/issue/feature tracking and management, etc.

Until the bots interface directly with these systems and work at things until they're done, we are going to need BAs and Product Managers... And testers, of course! And so the software that supports those functions working together probably has a few years in it at least.

At least. And in many industries traceability is essential and AI is a black box.