Using AI to plan your routes. Yes or No?

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Im now experimenting with taking a screenshot of my route after creating it online and then asking chat bollox AI of any points to not miss on the trip or any alternative better scenic or twisty routes etc.
Can even ask what photo places opportunities are along the way within a certain amount of time from the route with co ordinates.
Will even give you the best place to get a picture from. I think the possibilities are obviously endless
I hate getting back home and someone asking if I did XYZ route and I didn't or missed a great landmark, photo opportunity etc

The only negative I can see is that it doesnt leave many surprises on the actual trip so torn about using it.

What's the consensus on using AI and potentially making the trip better or worse?
 
how will AI know where I'm going, when I don't have a clue till I get there...?
 
Why Simply, WHY??

Honestly Working in an Industry where every fool is "into AI" I simply cannot understand everyone's infatuation with AI

What is there left for Humans??

Its your route! Pick what you want to see and go see it! Don't let a Computer plan your day no matter how fucking smart it is!

or maybe they already do!"!
 
AI, used smartly, is only the 21st century’s version of a well thumbed travel guide book and dog eared map.

Use it, as you see fit.

PS Somewhat worryingly, AI spat out an answer this morning, where its primary source of data was….. UKGSer! I don’t think it will be taking over the world any time soon.
 
Navigation planning software (where it comes up with a “curvy” route) and gps routing are AI. Basic, but it is.
We just don’t call them that.

I found asking chat-based AI tools for some secluded spots here and there across some routes I planned already, and it worked fairly well, have to say.
Refining plans and exploring variations, sense checking a few things works well too.
Always double check though.
 
stickywicket said:
Im now experimenting with taking a screenshot of my route after creating it online and then asking chat bollox AI of any points to not miss on the trip or any alternative better scenic or twisty routes etc.
Can even ask what photo places opportunities are along the way within a certain amount of time from the route with co ordinates.
Will even give you the best place to get a picture from. I think the possibilities are obviously endless
I hate getting back home and someone asking if I did XYZ route and I didn't or missed a great landmark, photo opportunity etc

The only negative I can see is that it doesnt leave many surprises on the actual trip so torn about using it.

What's the consensus on using AI and potentially making the trip better or worse?
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I saw recently an Ai generated itinerary which recommended putting the bikes in a van to get to a European ferry port, then boarding the ferry with both the bikes and the van and leaving the van at the ferry destination port.

So no, don’t use an AI. They know fuck all.
 
They only know what you put in. If you put in plan a motorcycle trip from a to b using only a motorcycle then it would not suggest the van I expect. That is a downside. You have to be very clear what you want
 
I simply asked Gemini

Plan me a route from Potes to Canfranc then along the length of the Pyrenees to Cadaques and got this ….

It is quite clever
 
A Michelin Map - works best for me ,,, then I stick in a few points on the XT ,,, nought much to go wrong 👍
 
No!, On any trip made its called an Adventure for a reason, having some man made Device telling me what to expect takes away something that is not replaced. "Mystery".

Same as with Sat navigation, never bothered with it until I had to use it on my truck which I actually had to pay for myself.
Many the time, not downloading updates found me floating in water on a river where a bridge had not yet been downloaded i.e the New Forth Road bridge crossing.

For me it is the old system of reading a map prior to the off on any trip, figuring out the route as I went along seemed to me much more enjoyable.

Ai now is a simple tool yet to achieve it full potential, but the future is here and now, either grab onto it or get swept away like when the fist computer became available to the public.
Most Mobile phones have so much memory, and can achieve what could only be dreamt of in the 70s.
 
Some (and their six mates) can’t even be arsed to try. It’s easier to demand that UKGSer creates their entire holiday for them, often based on nothing more than the scantiest of information, which then proves to be incorrect.

Yup, they are ruggedly independent alright. Knights of the road, astride their awesome steeds…. Crapping themselves that the hotelier might not be biker friendly and that the menu might not have pictures, as it’s all in foreign.
 
Wapping said:
Some (and their six mates) can’t even be arsed to try. It’s easier to demand that UKGSer creates their entire holiday for them, often based on nothing more than the scantiest of information, which then proves to be incorrect.

Yup, they are ruggedly independent alright. Knights of the road, astride their awesome steeds…. Crapping themselves that the hotelier might not be biker friendly and that the menu might not have pictures, as it’s all in foreign.
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Don’t forget the fuel problem and their bike will undoubtedly be stolen on the first night.
 
stickywicket said:
They only know what you put in. If you put in plan a motorcycle trip from a to b using only a motorcycle then it would not suggest the van I expect. That is a downside. You have to be very clear what you want
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good job you’re not an Ai then.

The brief was to ban the bikes to a destination in Europe then catch a ferry. The AI got the van part right, then suggested that both a) the van was left at the ferry port and b) the van was loaded on to the ferry with the bikes in it.

I use gen AI every day and most of its output is woeful. And I’ve been working with AI since 2000
 
Wapping said:
AI, used smartly, is only the 21st century’s version of a well thumbed travel guide book and dog eared map.

Use it, as you see fit.

PS Somewhat worryingly, AI spat out an answer this morning, where its primary source of data was….. UKGSer! I don’t think it will be taking over the world any time soon.
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What was the question? "What oil should I use?"
 
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