Can you use ChatGPT as a travel agent? Here's what I learned about AI vacation planning.

Author: Editors Desk Source: USA Today

April 2, 2023 at 07:52

ChatGPT's travel planning abilities are limited, for now.

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I was with my travel agent for only a couple of minutes before getting a detailed itinerary for an upcoming trip to New York City. The schedule not only included suggested activities during a mid-September weekend, such as a stroll through Central Park and a visit to the Empire State Building but also factored in time for flights from Nashville, Tennessee, where I live.

"Can you help me book those flights?" I asked.

"I'm sorry, but as an AI language model, I don't have the capability to book flights for you," ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence computer program from OpenAI, responded.

I was using the term "travel agent" loosely.