AI arrives on Google Maps with these new functions

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly present in our daily lives. In fact, the next generation of Apple software will include great AI features and will be showcased at WWDC24 whose dates were announced last week. However, other apps are also taking the opportunity to join the wave of artificial intelligence to attract more users who consider the app’s functions useful. This is the case of Google Maps, who announced the launch of new features based on generative AI which will, according to them, allow travel smarter.

Google Maps receives new AI-related features

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Google took advantage of the arrival of summer and users’ travel planning to launch new artificial intelligence features which make it easier to organize trips and discover places. Through an article on its official blog, Google presented all these functions which will be available in the coming months, even if of currently only in the United States:

1. Generative AI in research: Through the Search Generative Experience service, Google will allow users to directly search for a travel-related request and we will directly get a travel plan. For example: “plan a 5-day trip to Rome with museums and restaurants.” Then Google will write the plan using Generative AI with suggestions for restaurants, flight options, hotels, important places, etc.
2. Recommendation lists on Google Maps: If we access Google Maps we can consult place recommendation lists where to go from Google-hired editors as well as a mix of favorite sites from members of the Google Maps community. For now, this feature will be tested in cities across the United States and Canada.
3. Changes to Maps lists: These new features in Maps favorites lists will reach everyone in the coming weeks. And we can modify the order of appearance of the sites in the lists that we create and we can order them according to our tastes, order of inclusion or by generating an itinerary.
4. Personalized style recommendations: Now, with this feature, Google will know a little more about our tastes and styles in clothing. In this way, and thanks to a carousel with different clothes that we can select if we like them or not, Google will know our way of dressing and when we search in the search engine we will obtain information related to our tastes such as “men’s clothing”. polo shirts” or “men’s pants”.
5. Circle to search on more devices: Google also took the opportunity to announce the extension of the real-time translation function using the camera, Circle to search, to more devices. Currently we can use it on Pixel 7+ and Samsung Galaxy S24. However, the rest of us will have to continue using Google Lens until this feature hits iPhones.