Stuck in Manhattan with three hours to fill after a drop-off, Eric planned the afternoon with Jarvis by voice while driving. He gave it a mood instead of a destination — a break from technology, maybe by looking at art about technology — and it weighed a museum, galleries and an observation deck, then came back with a walking route through Chelsea galleries. At the end of the call he told it to put the route in his calendar, and it did.
Vo asked the AI to buy IMAX tickets for 'The Odyssey' in Daly City during daytime hours when she has a nanny. The AI found showtimes, navigated the Cinemark site's guest checkout, and reached the payment screen using a Stripe Link virtual card.
While Dan Shipper's Dot displayed research for changing his flight out of San Francisco, it warned the new option might overlap with his head of video's Wednesday morning recording. The recording was not on Shipper's calendar — the Dot had read an unseen Slack discussion, clocked the proposed schedule and alerted him at the moment it mattered; the rest of the column is paywalled.
Vibe-built a Wikipodcast app with a Wikipedia dump, Gemma search and summarization, and TTS; actually used it on a Rhine bike trip to listen to local history.
Points-and-miles creator Rachel Tyers says her AI caught a flight booking error that could have wrecked her week, flagging it before she noticed. The bot drafted the fix for her approval; the caption never says what the booking error actually was.
He says he uses AI to find the cheapest tickets for events he knows he wants to attend. Its feed also told him about an event by a favorite artist of his. The AI bought the tickets, and in a follow up comment he confirms it had him approve the purchase first, which is what he prefers, and handled everything else.
The same man's system pulls every train, flight, hotel and ferry booking out of his email into one travel database. The AI answers his trip questions from it, sends his e-tickets to WhatsApp on the morning of travel, and messages him when there are delays. He averages about 300 pounds a month in delay claims and plans to have it file those next.
An X user sent the AI a photo of their credit card and the bot completed the entire flight booking on a confusing airline website, returning a booking confirmation. Elon Musk replied publicly that SpaceX would make users whole if the AI ever made a purchase mistake or leaked card details.
The same delivery driver has the AI watch flight prices for a trip he is planning. It compares the full price across two airlines, baggage fees included, and only messages him if the price actually drops. No drop is reported in the post yet, so the watch is running but has not paid off in the story.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.