TLDR:
Planning a vacation itinerary with AI made the process surprisingly easy and stress-free. Using Galaxy AI on a Samsung phone, the author was able to efficiently plan a two-day trip to Seoul, South Korea with personalized recommendations and helpful features.
Key Elements:
- The author used Galaxy AI on a Samsung phone to plan a two-day trip to Seoul, South Korea.
- The AI technology condensed articles into bullet points, provided image search functions, and offered live interpreter capabilities.
It’s just after sunrise in Seoul, and my eyes are glued to the window of a taxi as I’m driven through the heart of South Korea’s capital. Even in the early hours of the morning, the city’s busy streets, packed with flashing digital billboards on every corner and lined with sleek high-rise buildings, almost come as a shock against the mountainous areas that surround it. I’m fresh off a 15-hour flight, on my way to the Gyeongbokgung Palace in northern Seoul, a historic palace built during the Joseon dynasty and one of a few major landmarks I’m hoping to explore during my five-day work trip. Typically, I’d be overwhelmed while scrolling through endless variations of “amazing things to do in Seoul” articles. I’d panic while trying to map out how to soak up all this city has to offer in my 48 hours of free time. Now, though, I’m surprisingly calm.
Days before this, I mapped out my brief Seoul itinerary with the help of AI. Much of my time here will be spent just outside of Seoul in the smaller town of Suwon, home to Samsung’s sprawling campus of 300-plus buildings, most of which are the kind of sleek, angular structures you’d expect to see in a place nicknamed “Digital City,” but not necessarily in a country steeped in centuries of history and tradition. But such is the norm in a place where centuries-old architecture and storied neighborhoods coexist with touchscreens and robots that serve you coffee — a perpetual reminder of the richness of the past and the vast possibilities of the future. I’ve been invited here by Samsung as the tech giant unveils Galaxy AI, a host of artificial intelligence capabilities related to internet searching, photo editing, and more across its line of Galaxy products.
In a perfect world, I’d distill weeks of Seoul research into bite-sized cells on an Excel spreadsheet housing the most efficient two-day itinerary you’ve ever seen. My reality is oxymoronically not so. As an operations professional, such meticulous project planning takes up a majority of my waking hours. So much time spent flexing those muscles means that the thought of planning anything outside of my job makes me want to throw up. Enter: Galaxy AI.
At an impasse of my own creation, Galaxy AI on my Galaxy S24 Ultra phone was my Hail Mary. I started by doing what any self-respecting person about to go on a trip would do and searched on the Samsung Internet app for “things to do in Seoul, South Korea.” When opening each link on the first page of results, I clicked on Galaxy AI’s three-star icon on the menu bar, which condensed thousand-word articles into a few bullet points of recommendations, many of which I ended up adding to my itinerary.