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

[Pushka]

Yes Gemini is definitely off camber. I asked for a list of recent suspense best selling book titles and it came back with 2 authors I knew but fictitious titles. When I called it out the actual answer back was that it had panicked when I had given my specifications and so had made up some titles. I mean that’s just weird.

Sometimes if important I start the search with Facts Only. Or, My future depends on accuracy. etc. that sometimes helps.

 

[kookaburra75]

Sometimes if important I start the search with Facts Only. Or, My future depends on accuracy. etc. that sometimes helps.

That's an important thing to do. Set some guardrails/boundaries at the start. All generative AI tools (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude etc) have a shortcoming which is technically referred to as "sycophancy", where they try and make you happy. That might involve making stuff up to provide you with a long list of answers, what might seem authoritative answers and so on. You might see phrases in responses like "... what a great suggestion", "... what do you think?" etc. It's like having a bad puppy - that sits there wagging its tail.

 

[Flyfrequently]

I do for finding out the tourist spots in the in the city I am travelling to, but it doesn't do a great job in planning the whole itinerary and it's better to plan the itinerary by myself rather than spending huge amount of time in first telling ChatGPT what I want and then keep editing those plans.

I wouldn't say it is smart enough yet to be fully relied upon for planning the whole itinerary.

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