Google’s AI Mode can book reservations for you… kind of

Google Search’s AI mode can now help you book restaurant reservations, or at least bring you to the booking page.

On Thursday, the technology giant announced that its IA mode had new “new agent capacities”, in particular by helping users to book restaurant reservations, with more to come. AI mode is already available in the United States, the United Kingdom and India, and Google has declared that it is now extending to more than 180 countries and territories, but only in English, for the moment.

While some points of sale have reported that “the new IA mode of Google Search can now book reservations for you”, it is not enough true for the moment.

When you are in AI mode on Google Search, you can describe the type of reservation of the dinner you are looking for, including the size of the party, the food restrictions, the date, the time, the kitchen, etc., and the Google underlying AI models will be deployed on the Internet and will create a list of restaurants with available reservations that match your criteria. When you have found a reservation that works, AI mode will bring you to the reservation page.

The possibility of rationalizing reservations in AI mode launched in the laboratory, the Google test field for new AI features, and it is only available for AI Ultra subscribers in the United States, however, it is a sign that Google is soon working on the launch of more widespread agent features. The announcement said that users will soon be able to book event tickets and make local service appointments. Google works with partners as opening, Resy, Toc, Ticketmaster, Stubhub, Seatgeek and Booksy to help organize these recommendations.

The mode has done the job to find restaurant reservations based on specific criteria.
Credit: Google

The agency part of this new feature, which means that the part of the functionality that uses AI advanced models to take measures on your behalf, is the research element. The functionality will still not make the real reservation for you. Users will have to manually confirm booking in a third -party tool like Resy.

Of course, you can simply go to Resy or Opentable and look for reservations this way, but this feature is looking for all the different platforms and the whole web, and draws books.

The advent of the agency web promises to automate tedious tasks and research, discharging it to our personalized AI assistants. If AI tools can keep this promise, technology could restructure the way we interact with the Internet. This is an early glow of how the agent AI takes shape online.

If you are a Google AI Ultra subscriber for $ 250 per month, you can try the reservation of agency booking in search laboratories by clicking on “Agencités in IA mode”.