Even last year, I didn't consider artificial intelligence (AI) a threat to a travel journalist. Artificial intelligence applications seemed clumsy, and open-source language models primarily silly.
I have made an effort to research and follow the development. Although I see a lot of opportunities, I also see threats that the price of billable work will collapse either directly when artificial intelligence replaces a human as a writer or when artificial intelligence makes it possible for people who previously could not write publishable articles.
Have you noticed that the number of articles produced directly with artificial intelligence has increased? Or that there has been a significant decrease in writing fees?
An example of an artificial intelligence (AI) application that already creates publishable articles for some uses is, for instance, Surfer. What worries me the most is the pace of development. When the content it writes is already so good, how good will it be next year?
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Hi I'm Rod a web developer living in Mallorca Spain,
I love to travel a lot and I know how time consuming is when you arrive to a new place and need to reasearch about stuff to do, so I built an AI itinerary bot for myself.
I showed it to a friend and she went "WOW I love this!".
The perks of using this bot include:
⏱ Time-saving: Instead of spending hours researching and planning your itinerary, the bot can do it for you in a matter of minutes.
🙋♀️ Local insights: The bot uses data and insights from locals and experts to suggest hidden gems and off-the-beaten-path attractions that you might not have found otherwise.
🚘 Efficiency: The bot can suggest the most efficient routes and modes of transportation to help you make the most of your time.
🤑 Cost-effective: The bot can suggest activities and attractions that fit your budget, helping you save money while still having a great travel experience.
👉 Overall, an AI-powered bot that suggests cool itineraries for any location in the world is a valuable tool for travelers who want to save time, money, and hassle while planning their trips.
So I decided to share it, hope is useful for you too. Let me know what you think! :)
PS: You can also follow my #buildinpublic progress on Twitter at twitter.com/rrmdp
Hey Rod, this is really cool and so easy to use with Telegram! I like the way that it links to Google search results so you can do further research on a suggestion in the itinerary.
A few quick questions:
1. Is it possible to link directly to travel blogs or other sources?
2. What AI platform at you using for this project?
3. Do you have plans to monetize this, or is this just a side-project / hobby?
4. What features do you have planned next for the bot?
And for anyone that is not following Rod on Twitter, you should! He posts daily about the progress of his projects and shares lots of his own learnings at twitter.com/rrmdp
1. Yes it's possible, I tried it with links to Viator but it needed to be more accurate so I took it away.
2. It's calling OpenAI API and using the model GPT-3.5-turbo.
3. Initially I made it for myself, just a little side project. Decided to post it on Twitter and last week an influencer with 700K followers on Instagram reached out asking me about the bot, we agreed to have a chat bout it, so you never know...
4. If is possible (with Google Maps API), I would love to inlcude a map with makers to the suggested places. More languages too. But what would be ideal is to get feedback and add features based on them :)
Hi Rod,,great idea,,but there are no other languages,,don't forget the Albanian language too hahah
Thanks a lot, Juri! I will be adding more languages based on users requests
I ve just tried it and it looks great. Amazing work!
Appreciate you Juan, if you have any feedback or feature requests please let me know! Gracias :)