Need some guidance while saving for a holiday? AI can help.
Summer is finally here, and I am ready to take a break and travel. Whether you are thinking about flying for the fourth or labor day of July, this is the time to start the plan – and savings – if you are not already. This year, I would like to go to Montreal and Quebec City. To help me achieve these goals, I turned to artificial intelligence for savings advice for my next holiday.
I chose to use Chatgpt to help in the budget for this holiday, giving good experiences with it as AI “coaches” in other parts of life. It is not as great as a complex financial advice tool, however – it is better to use it for simple, more general advice.
If you are using Chatgpt to help you plan your holiday, you can also ask questions beyond the finance, such as where to go, when to travel and how to find the best deals and cheap options for your budget.
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Present your first prompt
To provide good savings recommendations for Chatgpt, you need to feed it as much references as possible including your goals, dates and clear parameters. In particular, you should share destination, length of travel, desired budget and some information on your current financial position.
If you have a financial tracking app, you can download the last three months of your spending activity and upload it to chat. If you do not, this may be a good time to start a personal budget.
To consider some budget application here, CNET expert tips are advised about saving and advice to how to stick to your savings goals, as well as to avoid some mistakes when you are saving money.
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Alternatively, although it requires more manual labor than using the budget app, you can upload the last 30 days of your financial activity to the spreadsheet and make it grown in categories.
Always be careful of sharing sensitive personal or financial information with AI tools due to just safety risks. To avoid knowing too much financial information about me, I am using estimates for this example.
For my first prompt, I said that I am planning to go to Montreal and Quebec City for a week, and hopefully the cost of the journey will be around $ 3,000. I also mentioned my annual earnings after tax; My monthly payment of house; My monthly expenses such as fare, groceries, food, yoga classes and membership; And how different I kept for investment and savings, left me with approximately $ 1,200 per month to use for travel. Ensure that you need to pay your minimum monthly payment and any other loan for your credit card.
Chatgpt gave several strategies to save me, in which ordering and least food, reducing grocery expenses, saving for this goal, preventing my yoga classes while saving for this goal, temporarily cutting my membership and limiting spontaneous purchases. Here it has suggested something:
However, be sure to re -check all the number of chatgips, as it is often wrong. Choose Chatgpt as the first step, but do not trust it for financial advice.
Make your signals more grainy
You can get even more granular advice by uploading all your food receipts, to see where you can save in order, or ask chat what kind of food you are spending the most money (and instead try to make them yourself at home).
Once your holiday is over, you can save all the receipts from travel, load them into chat and spot the trend of spending trends for factor in future trips.
Ask for travel tips
I also wanted to know if Chatgate had an easy suggestion for a visit to Montreal/Quebec City during summer. The advice was very common, such as booking early and avoiding tourist nets, but it suggested checking the passport mtl for concessional attraction.
I continued to attack to see what the chatgate can provide non-Lokl, and it gave me food like the cheapest neighborhood and restaurant, to avoid liquor marks, BROB spots and to drink tap water in the city of Quebec, looking at excellent water quality.
AI will not give you all answers, but it will inspire ideas on savings – before both and when you are on holiday. You can also download a chat app to answer your money and montreal questions.
Just remember that whatever information you put in the chat will not necessarily be confidential. It will be used to train the AI ​​model, so it provides better answers in the future, until you disable your chat history (although openiI still saves it for 30 days). The iconic budget apps have a lot of protection and can provide better answers than AI at this point. (Disclosure: In April, CNET’s original company Ziff Davis, filed a case against Openai, alleging that it violates Ziff Davis Copyright training and operates its AI system.)
