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Gliderman8

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In preparation for our upcoming 50th anniversary trip I decided to try one of the new A.I. travel sites. You can ask it most anything about a country, city, etc.
I typed: "Give me a two day itinerary for Milan" and it came back with this (I copied day 1 starting with Lunch).
Have a look at the 4:50pm time slot for the suggestion it generated. What?
By the way, I only requested places of interest to visit but it threw in the "Dior Boutique" along with the comment.
Do you think this A.I. shopped there previously? :crazyeyes:

Day 1:
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Lunch
1:45pm: Paper Moon Giardino is a popular restaurant among high rollers in Milan from the fashion and entertainment industries. The restaurant is located in a historic neoclassical palazzo in the city's highest-end shopping district, known as the Golden Rectangle.

4:50pm: Dior (Boutique) - Don't waste your time at this store with terrible customer service. They only care about taking your money and won't help you with any issues. Avoid this place and shop elsewhere.

Dinner
7:05pm: La Veranda is a restaurant located in the Four Seasons hotel. The restaurant has an elegant dining room and a beautiful garden with a summer terrace. The cuisine has a more modern feel in 2019, thanks to the new chef who uses the best Italian ingredients to create dishes with a contemporary feel.

9:20pm: Vista Darsena is a dock-side conservatory bar that serves breakfast, coffee, snacks, and aperitivo from dawn until dusk. In winter, drinkers hunker down beneath the outdoor heaters, but in summer they grab their cocktails and sit beside the water.
 
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yessiree - AI pulls together lots of possibilities, not necessarily do-able - or desired - by a rational human being, and some of the possibilities are just made up by the AI system.

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I just tried the A.I suggestions for another city on our trip. It is suggesting a BAR for breakfast.... :thirsty:
Day 1:

Breakfast
9:15am: Escape the tourist crowds and unwind at this lively bar in Campo San Margherita. With refreshing drinks, great music, and a young crowd, it's the perfect spot to enjoy Venice's balmy summer nights. Open until 2 am, Margaret Duchamp offers outside seating, reasonably priced meals, and classic Venetian cocktails in an artfully minimalist setting.
 
Gliderman8 said:
I just tried the A.I suggestions for another city on our trip. It is suggesting a BAR for breakfast.... :thirsty:
Day 1:

Breakfast
9:15am: Escape the tourist crowds and unwind at this lively bar in Campo San Margherita. With refreshing drinks, great music, and a young crowd, it's the perfect spot to enjoy Venice's balmy summer nights. Open until 2 am, Margaret Duchamp offers outside seating, reasonably priced meals, and classic Venetian cocktails in an artfully minimalist setting.
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And it may be correct. In Spain everything happens in bars - so every morning we went to a bar for breakfast. Typically continental breakfast but still. And yes, every morning someone was finishing a beer before heading out to work.
 
JPSmit said:
And it may be correct. In Spain everything happens in bars - so every morning we went to a bar for breakfast. Typically continental breakfast but still. And yes, every morning someone was finishing a beer before heading out to work.
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Thanks for the heads up. Maybe scrambled eggs and a glass of pinot 🤣
 
As I went back and read the first post, I saw that Elliot asked the AI system "Give me a two day itinerary for Milan" and said he only requested places of interest to visit.

Wonder why the AI response wasn't places to visit at all - just places to eat.

Could that AI system have a hidden agenda? kickbacks from a list of "approved" places? :eek:

nah - that would never happen ...

PS - Elliot, what AI system did you use?
 
NutmegCT said:
Could that AI system have a hidden agenda? kickbacks from a list of "approved" places?
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Is there any other reason for the development of AI other than making money? Facebook uses AI to mine your data and sell it to the relevant businesses so they can inundate you with ads the algorithms think are relevant to you.
 
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NutmegCT said:
As I went back and read the first post, I saw that Elliot asked the AI system "Give me a two day itinerary for Milan" and said he only requested places of interest to visit.

Wonder why the AI response wasn't places to visit at all - just places to eat.

Could that AI system have a hidden agenda? kickbacks from a list of "approved" places? :eek:

nah - that would never happen ...

PS - Elliot, what AI system did you use?
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To be more exact, I asked for places of interest as well as suggestions for restaurants. Still, it gave me mostly eating establishments. I think Basil has it right. $ drives the responses.
 
Basil said:
Is there any other reason for the development of AI other than making money? Facebook uses AI to mine your data and sell it to the relevant businesses so they can inundate you with ads the algorithms think are relevant to you.
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I am so glad I never use Facebook. If I want to stay in contact with family and friends I will call them. I find it ridiculous to see a pair of sneakers that someone just bought at the mall then posts on Facebook.
 
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