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By that point, you don't need an AI that boils the oceans and hopefully doesn't confabulate or misinterpret your words, all you need is a better corporate trave

by ezst 13d ago

By that point, you don't need an AI that boils the oceans and hopefully doesn't confabulate or misinterpret your words, all you need is a better corporate travel portal, which is a legitimate workplace productivity discussion to have, and a solved problem with traditional methods. Ours is effectively close to the workflow you describe: picking dates and time brackets, destination, fine tuning flights and hotel options, sending for validation, less than 10 clicks through information-dense and effective/predictable screens which I wouldn't want to trade for a chatbot and it's usually over the top words salad.

skydhash 13d ago
Most AI use cases can be reduced to a deterministic listing/form/report format (on the web) or a cli tools.
- Ekaros 13d ago
  We have had idea of expert systems for decades at this point. And spend however much on software development. Some how we have failed to reach this in way too many places. Even simplest things like cancelling some service might be broken... And now we want to add some random factor into middle of it all...
sgt101 13d ago
And the reason why there are 10 clicks is that that is the number of decisions that is required to get people to hand over their money. There will have been an A-B test with 9 clicks -> less sales, less revenue. There will have been an A-B test with 11 clicks -> less sales, less revenue. The people making these sites are not dumb. They are also sitting on thin margins nowadays, and mostly from the airlines and hotels rather than from the users.
- Philip-J-Fry 13d ago
  That doesn't apply to a corporate travel portal. If you're on the portal, you're booking a business trip. You're not going to not book a trip because it takes 1 click too many.
  - sgt101 13d ago
    That's approximated by the portals - the people building these go and look at Expedia for their flow and design ideas... so the information permeates across.

by ezst 13d ago

skydhash 13d ago

Most AI use cases can be reduced to a deterministic listing/form/report format (on the web) or a cli tools.

Ekaros 13d ago
We have had idea of expert systems for decades at this point. And spend however much on software development. Some how we have failed to reach this in way too many places. Even simplest things like cancelling some service might be broken... And now we want to add some random factor into middle of it all...

sgt101 13d ago

And the reason why there are 10 clicks is that that is the number of decisions that is required to get people to hand over their money. There will have been an A-B test with 9 clicks -> less sales, less revenue. There will have been an A-B test with 11 clicks -> less sales, less revenue. The people making these sites are not dumb. They are also sitting on thin margins nowadays, and mostly from the airlines and hotels rather than from the users.

Philip-J-Fry 13d ago
That doesn't apply to a corporate travel portal. If you're on the portal, you're booking a business trip. You're not going to not book a trip because it takes 1 click too many.
- sgt101 13d ago
  That's approximated by the portals - the people building these go and look at Expedia for their flow and design ideas... so the information permeates across.