“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking” - on this note... are we at a bottleneck with AI? While we can feed it personal requests and guide its answers by prompting the question in one direction, does it run the risk of tunnelling our lives? Suppose we know little about Japan and ask for good first-time trip planning. Will it not give us the results based on the vast majority of answers already out there, further pushing travellers as a collective whole in the same singular direction?
Great question! This risk already existed with social media and search engine ranking algorithms, and it is surely as relevant if not more for AI-based assistants. Based on what ChatGPT tells you, no-one would feel encouraged to try climbing Mt Fuji in winter :). More on this in the next edition 💫
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking” - on this note... are we at a bottleneck with AI? While we can feed it personal requests and guide its answers by prompting the question in one direction, does it run the risk of tunnelling our lives? Suppose we know little about Japan and ask for good first-time trip planning. Will it not give us the results based on the vast majority of answers already out there, further pushing travellers as a collective whole in the same singular direction?
Great question! This risk already existed with social media and search engine ranking algorithms, and it is surely as relevant if not more for AI-based assistants. Based on what ChatGPT tells you, no-one would feel encouraged to try climbing Mt Fuji in winter :). More on this in the next edition 💫
For more exciting food to try, I suggest Okonomiyaki. Best to eat in Osaka or Kyoto!