Kayak’s new AI features will let users double-check flights with a screenshot
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Kayak launched new AI features that let people ask a chatbot for travel tips and find flights with just a screenshot. This brings Kayak in line with many other travel sites that offer AI services for trip planning and, now, price comparisons.
PriceCheck, one of Kayak's two new AI features, lets users check if they found the best price just by taking a screenshot of flight information they found somewhere else. Kayak said in a statement that customers can upload a screenshot of any flight, even if they found the flight on their competitors' websites, and PriceCheck will search hundreds of sites to see if we can find a better price."
Matthias Keller, chief scientist and senior vice president of technology at Kayak, said in an email to T...