I paid the $20 for the upgraded chatgpt features. Yes I can use gemini, co-pilot, or llama. But I found that chatgpt worked the best. At least for what I used it for. What was I using it for and what do I use it for? I wanted help travel planning with all the travel plans we have this summer and it was awesome.
Could I have done what it did? Absolutely but it would take longer to do all the research. I might also use it to write emails but everytime I read chatgpt emails i can tell from people. Maybe if they use it for ideas and edit it would work better.
But for travel planning? It is insanely good. It can help you keep track of confirmation numbers, phone numbers, addresses, keep an excel budget of your spending, which credit card, which site. It even can help with a packing list.
But the travel planning and how it excecutes it? It makes suggestions for places to eat. I had it help me evaluate places between different hotels. I had it look over my thoughts on flow of the day. I had it help evaluate between daily plans and help me create a list of dates i needed on my calendar to book things a month or 2 months or 2 weeks ahead of tiem. It helped keep addresses and websites organized.
We just got back from a college tours trip and it helped keep all the details neatly summarized. Yes I had printout. It also helped me look at hotels by the campuses and determine which might work better. It also helped me with maps and organizing everything into one printout and one mobile printout.
So we have a trip to Japan in August. It's mainly why I paid for the chatgpt for a month for the high usage for the trip.
It really helped me iron out the details like a travel agent. We are staying in Tokyo from August 21-25th. It helped me with daily activities like Disneysea, baseball game, shopping, shibuya sky, hedgehog cafe, possibly a sumo event. It also helped me determine the hotel and location and using a private transfer. Then we move onto Hakone and it helped me determine 2 days there and where to stay and the hakone loop. Then we head to Nara and Osaka. it helped us plan the day in Nara en route to Osaka. Then we would be in Osaka from 27th - 30th. One day for the expo, one day for universal then we head back to Tokyo for the flight on the 31st. This time making suggestions for where to eat and evaluating the packages for universal.
It has all reservations so far compiled and neatly organized as well. I will say if you have a big trip coming up it's a great use of chatgpt.
July 11th, 2025 at 01:26 am 1752193564
One of my biggest concerns is that a lot of near-peer countries like Russia and China have already been using it on a global scale to generate pro-Russia and pro-China online propaganda. It argues well enough, though keen observers may still detect them. But once again, it won't be long before even humans can not detect or argue well enough against them. Too many people already fall for them.
July 11th, 2025 at 01:23 pm 1752236585