I asked ChatGPT to plan a trek for me. Then I did it.

The Norfolk village of Burnham Overy Staithe, as seen from the England Coast Path. Photo by Kassondra Cloos

I had accepted a challenge to ask AI to plan a town-to-town trek on the English coast and then follow its orders without fact-checking—beyond confirming the existence of the places it suggested. If I’m being honest, I wanted to have a bad time. Aside from making a living from exactly the thing AI purports to do flawlessly in mere seconds threatening to render me obsolete, I am also the sort of person who still sends postcards and handwritten letters. I love off-grid nature trips and the analog ways of doing things, so, naturally, I wanted to hate this new invasion of technology into our personal lives. I wanted it to fail at planning my trip, and miserably. I daydreamt that it would try to send me hiking straight into the sea the way Michael Scott drives into a lake while following his GPS in The Office.

For better or worse, what I experienced was something much more complicated and nuanced: It’s not that AI isn’t good at planning travel. It’s just not quite there yet.

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