Barry Diller
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And that was definitely a radical transformation.
We're certainly at the brink of the next revolution.
If you were sitting in 1995 or 2000, at the beginning of the things you did not know, and there were plenty of those, there was nothing that
cracked your mind and astounded you and said oh my god this is beyond me this is magic you could master it it wasn't hard to master ai will it master us certainly in some cases it probably will
The first time I used ChatGPT, which was before it was released, and I thought, well, this is frigging magic.
And we're past that very early stage.
We're into the great unknown here.
It's going to have profound effect.
I don't know to what exact extent.
I know that for my businesses, we are racing, and we've been doing this for years, and anyone in business has been using machine learning for a decade or more.
we're so far past that now in so many different areas that I can't,
by any stretch tell you the extent of these changes, except I know they're profound.
How do you think it's going to impact the travel business?
Well, it's already impacted the travel business.
You are able now, I mean, Expedia, which is a large entity, I mean, $115 or $20 billion of sales.
It's a large enterprise.
And it is a tech company.
The things we are using AI to do now,
which did not exist, is profound in every area of our service.
It is more than likely that within a year, but I don't say that, and I think it really is probably truly within a year or so, you really will be able to have a conversation, agentic, this new word, where an agent does work for you.