How Artificial Intelligence is changing the travel industry

Interesting article. Anything which will improve the customer experience is a welcome. In this day and age with so many humans without customer service personality in front of customers and their lack of training, I would gladly talk to a Bot. Translation AI is improving constantly and soon no one will HAVE to speak a foreign language to enjoy a conversation with someone in another country which will make communication more substantial.

Remember when we laughed at The Jetson's?

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To some (including myself) the term "Artificial Intelligence" implies that one is not intelligent enough to take care of one's own self. While in Europe several years ago, a member of our group was discussing all the high tech gizmos such as cell phone, tablets, GPS, wi-fi, and etc., that was being used on the trip, and commented "How did people ever travel without all this stuff". My thought, as one who traveled extensively in Europe in the mid 1960s, was "Actualy quite well, and a heck of a lot simpler". Guess my inner Luddite is showing.

Yes I just use Google maps to navigate and airline and hotel apps so no more paper waste.

I am not a great fan of the new technology and AI scares the crap out of me. Too many Terminator movies.

I have already bought stock in a bunker in the Brazilian RainForest.

But I use apps for Airlines, Hotels and Taxis and i dont go to the head without putting it in Google Maps for directions.

Here is a news article about an influencer who is using GuideGeek AI to plan travel for his family over the next 6 months:

https://ca.yahoo.com/news/meet-family-letting-ai-chatbot-120700829.html

Here is link to the app: https://guidegeek.com/

Does all this mean more people in fewer places, crowded to the point that the AI has sent every tech-savvy person to the same places?

If the travel industry is now changing, who’s benefitting?

OP is a bot imo