Google Maps adds agentic features, including food ordering and hotel bookings

Google announced connected Thursday that Google Maps’ “Ask Maps” diagnostic is gaining a slew of caller agentic capabilities, including the quality to bid food, publication hotels, and find lawsuit tickets. The tech elephantine is besides bringing Personal Intelligence to Ask Maps, allowing the AI instrumentality to personalize its responses by drafting connected accusation from a user’s Gmail and Google Calendar.

The motorboat of the caller features reflects Google’s ambitions to alteration Google Maps from a navigation instrumentality into an adjunct that’s susceptible of helping users implicit real-world tasks.

With the caller agentic nutrient ordering capabilities, users tin unfastened Ask Maps successful Google Maps and inquire a question like, “Where tin I bid vegan avocado toast and an oat beverage latte adjacent home?” The instrumentality volition past aboveground adjacent restaurants that person what they’re looking for.

After selecting a restaurant, users tin pat the “Order online” enactment to spot an bid done supported platforms specified arsenic Square, Toast, oregon Uber Eats. Ask Maps volition adhd the items to a cart. Users tin take to adhd much items to their cart, past wage for the bid connected the supported platform.

Additionally, users tin usage Ask Maps to find a edifice for their adjacent travel by entering a query like, “For adjacent weekend’s league successful downtown Miami, find maine a decently priced, top-rated edifice with an artsy vibe wrong walking region from a gym and restaurants.” Ask Maps volition past comparison prices and cheque availability earlier providing a database of options. Once users find an enactment they like, they tin click done to the partner’s website to publication the stay.

Users tin besides inquire questions similar “what are immoderate drama shows oregon unrecorded euphony this evening adjacent work” to get a database of options on with links to bargain tickets.

The caller agentic features are rolling retired to users successful the U.S.

With the summation of Personal Intelligence, Ask Maps volition beryllium capable to springiness users personalized answers to their questions astir upcoming flights, meal reservations, hotels, and more. For example, users could ask, “What clip volition I onshore successful Vancouver connected my upcoming flight?” oregon “Can you urge wherever to devour and what to bash adjacent my hotel?” Ask Maps volition past propulsion accusation from a user’s emails and calendar to supply tailored responses.

It’s worthy noting that Personal Intelligence is disconnected by default.

Ask Maps volition present besides retrieve anterior conversations, allowing users to prime up wherever they near off. Now, users tin inquire things like, “What activities had you suggested for my travel to Seattle?” and proceed readying without having to commencement from scratch.

Google is besides launching a unrecorded transit widget successful Ask Maps that volition let users to enactment up to day connected delays and conditions arsenic they alteration successful existent time.

Personal Intelligence and the unrecorded transit widget successful Ask Maps are rolling retired to each markets wherever Ask Maps is available.