Comment by mlmonkey
5 hours ago
I often feel like the use cases, demos, etc. that these Silicon Valley employees put out are based around their needs and how they operate.
"Oh hey! Here's a demo of an AI planning out a 1-week trip to Paris!" No one in Middle America would just hand their credit card to an AI and let it come up with such a trip!
I wish SV companies took more of the middle-class (and lower-middle-class) into consideration when coming up with such demos.
(Note: I live in SF)
And nobody with actual taste is going to take any of those recs seriously in the first place.
I mean, not auto-purchasing with the card, no. But my wife has definitely used chatGPT to plan activities on the trips we've already booked.
I hooked up Google Maps to ChatGPT and that was definitely helpful for this; without them it would seemingly just guestimate driving distances, but with the MCP it was able to determine exact driving/walking times and also render maps with waypoints for activities around the lodging.
I used https://github.com/cablate/mcp-google-map for the MCP (and patched it to generate URLs for the maps).