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We wrote the OpenAI Wanderlust app in pure Python using Solara

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Re: We wrote the OpenAI Wanderlust app in pure Python using Solara

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Solara is a fantastic project! The user experience is excellent, and I can quickly get ideas up and running. Solara can potentially become the framework for shipping ML/AI apps. We (Ploomber) have been working with the team to help their community easily deploy applications in our cloud platform: https://docs.cloud.ploomber.io/en/latest/apps/solara.html

Thank you

Re: We wrote the OpenAI Wanderlust app in pure Python using Solara

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We (the authors of the Solara web app framework) were inspired by the OpenAI keynote Wanderlust app they demoed and rebuilt it in Python using Solara. It would be good to showcase our framework's power and inspire others to build UI's with AI/LLM elements in it. GitHub: https://github.com/widgetti/wanderlust App: https://huggingface.co/spaces/solara-dev/wanderlust X: https://twitter.com/maartenbreddels/status/1722324…

My dream is to have a real AI-powered travel agent that would do all the discovery stuff per my constraints and selections and then book reservations (where needed) for anything. The AI agent would fill out all the necessary online forms or make calls and collect confirmations. Then it would present me with my itinerary which I can ask it to change at any time.

Re: We wrote the OpenAI Wanderlust app in pure Python using Solara

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post #13

We (the authors of the Solara web app framework) were inspired by the OpenAI keynote Wanderlust app they demoed and rebuilt it in Python using Solara. It would be good to showcase our framework's power and inspire others to build UI's with AI/LLM elements in it. GitHub: https://github.com/widgetti/wanderlust App: https://huggingface.co/spaces/solara-dev/wanderlust X: https://twitter.com/maartenbreddels/status/1722324…

My dream is to have a real AI-powered travel agent that would do all the discovery stuff per my constraints and selections and then book reservations (where needed) for anything. The AI agent would fill out all the necessary online forms or make calls and collect confirmations. Then it would present me with my itinerary which I can ask it to change at any time.

I’m curious what are you thinking the advantages of using an AI only agent for this? For example, compared to Anywhere.com, where human experts are the agents.

Re: We wrote the OpenAI Wanderlust app in pure Python using Solara

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post #13

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My dream is to have a real AI-powered travel agent that would do all the discovery stuff per my constraints and selections and then book reservations (where needed) for anything. The AI agent would fill out all the necessary online forms or make calls and collect confirmations. Then it would present me with my itinerary which I can ask it to change at any time.

I’m curious what are you thinking the advantages of using an AI only agent for this? For example, compared to Anywhere.com, where human experts are the agents.

what's their cut on something like that?

Re: We wrote the OpenAI Wanderlust app in pure Python using Solara

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post #13

We (the authors of the Solara web app framework) were inspired by the OpenAI keynote Wanderlust app they demoed and rebuilt it in Python using Solara. It would be good to showcase our framework's power and inspire others to build UI's with AI/LLM elements in it. GitHub: https://github.com/widgetti/wanderlust App: https://huggingface.co/spaces/solara-dev/wanderlust X: https://twitter.com/maartenbreddels/status/1722324…

My dream is to have a real AI-powered travel agent that would do all the discovery stuff per my constraints and selections and then book reservations (where needed) for anything. The AI agent would fill out all the necessary online forms or make calls and collect confirmations. Then it would present me with my itinerary which I can ask it to change at any time.

But how much are you willing to pay for this service?

because it's not like human travel agents don't exist today, just like human drivers exist today. Does having an AI book the tickets for you meaningfully change the things for you, the customer?

Re: We wrote the OpenAI Wanderlust app in pure Python using Solara

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Excellent work. Do you envision this more for data science work, or can this be used for building general purpose webapp?

It can be used for general purposes, but we focus on the data science landscape. However, our main website is built using solara, and we know a few startups using solara for their main product (public-facing, not internal).

Can you give examples?

Re: We wrote the OpenAI Wanderlust app in pure Python using Solara

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My dream is to have a real AI-powered travel agent that would do all the discovery stuff per my constraints and selections and then book reservations (where needed) for anything. The AI agent would fill out all the necessary online forms or make calls and collect confirmations. Then it would present me with my itinerary which I can ask it to change at any time.

But how much are you willing to pay for this service? because it's not like human travel agents don't exist today, just like human drivers exist today. Does having an AI book the tickets for you meaningfully change the things for you, the customer?

Since it's automated, it could cost less than a dollar per booking, orders of magnitude less than what a travel agent could offer.

Re: We wrote the OpenAI Wanderlust app in pure Python using Solara

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post #13

We (the authors of the Solara web app framework) were inspired by the OpenAI keynote Wanderlust app they demoed and rebuilt it in Python using Solara. It would be good to showcase our framework's power and inspire others to build UI's with AI/LLM elements in it. GitHub: https://github.com/widgetti/wanderlust App: https://huggingface.co/spaces/solara-dev/wanderlust X: https://twitter.com/maartenbreddels/status/1722324…

My dream is to have a real AI-powered travel agent that would do all the discovery stuff per my constraints and selections and then book reservations (where needed) for anything. The AI agent would fill out all the necessary online forms or make calls and collect confirmations. Then it would present me with my itinerary which I can ask it to change at any time.

These days I purposefully avoid as much travel research as possible, and intently choose to immerse in the place and moment instead. I'm happy to miss that 4.97 stars dinner place, and instead enjoy interacting with a less-than-Instagram-perfect dinner & perhaps some flesh-and-bones human company.

Re: We wrote the OpenAI Wanderlust app in pure Python using Solara

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I was a bit surprised about their choice of example app. With tour guide/info you need to be re-assured the information you're giving is correct. But asking LLM's to write it for you is a recipe for hallucinations. I built Summer AI to do audio tour guides using old fashioned web scraping and then piping the output through LLM's just to summarize and even then use a couple of extra steps to ensure factual accuracy.

During testing I found any other approach would always inevitably make stuff up.

Not trying to disparage this work. I think it's great that you can build such a thing so quickly. But I wouldn't rely on the info these LLM's provide.

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