Caitlin Talbot
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124 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 17 Aug
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So we were diverted to Madrid Airport and now we are all trying to get back.
Advisors can be a little bit snarky about AI's shortcomings, but many of them have started using it in their work.
Some agencies even treat AI as another member of the team, getting bots to do the boring jobs that they don't want to.
A company called Fora, which calls itself a modern travel agency, has built a billion-dollar business by providing travel advisors with an AI-powered platform that speeds up those boring administrative tasks.
So I recently booked my honeymoon with a travel agent.
I wanted a luxury experience.
I wanted to go in person.
I'm going on a safari.
So I wanted to have someone at the other end of a phone to advise me on my visas.
I just didn't want to think about it.
I wanted to take the stress completely out of the booking experience rather than my usual techniques of asking a chatbot for advice.
We had a thoroughly interesting.
enjoyable afternoon booking the honeymoon.
So while I think that as bots get better at planning trips, people may enlist the help of human advisors less, the top-end services will probably endure.
After all, there's always going to be someone booking a honeymoon, a special trip.
Or just wanting a level of human support and curation that AI can't yet provide.
A ghostwriter is haunting the English language.
Caitlin Talbot is a digital culture correspondent for The Economist.
It's frightfully versatile.
It can mimic Shakespeare's sonnets or a schlocky beach read.
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