In this age of AI, large AI products like ChatGPT, Midjourney, and Udio help us write, program, draw, and write songs, and they seem to be able to do everything from conversation chat to assisted office work to post-creation. However, such AI is still a bit far away from ordinary people, and the most important thing for each of us ordinary people is food, clothing, housing, transportation, firewood, rice, oil and salt. With the expansion of the AI tide, the AI "life partner" suitable for every ordinary person has finally arrived. Recently, Alipay has quietly launched an AI intelligent assistant, allowing us to say goodbye to repeatedly jumping between various apps, and help us get things done in life with one click.
The AI assistant simplifies the mobile app process with an AI conversational interface, eliminating the need for users to switch between multiple apps, greatly improving efficiency. Based on the user's prompts, it can also provide preferred recommendations for hotels, tourist attractions, and local cuisines. In addition, the AI assistant also provides functions such as health consultation and government services. Presumably, Alipay's ambition is to allow the intelligent assistant to call all Alipay applets, replace Siri and Xiaoai, and become everyone's real life AI assistant.
Click on the + sign in the upper right corner of Alipay's homepage, or enter "smart assistant" in the search bar to find it. This smart assistant is closely focused on the scenes of daily life. Open Alipay, tell the assistant what you need, and it will take care of everything for you.
Itinerary planning, ticket purchase
On May Day, I went to Dujiangyan to play, because I didn't plan in advance, I didn't buy a high-speed rail ticket and had to go to take the bus, which delayed a lot of time. I let this smart assistant arrange the scene of the May Day trip again, no longer look for half a day in Baidu first, and then go to 12306 to book tickets. It's clearly arranged.
List the train number directly in a question, and you can click directly on the booking link.
Hotel reservations
Perhaps because it is still a beta version, the hotel reservation can directly jump out of the reservation link at the beginning, and now it has become a link jump to the reservation platform.
Eat, drink and be merry
Enter "xxx nearby restaurant", it will list the restaurant details and distance, it may be because of the test, direct ordering is not possible at present.
Type in "Suggest a movie for tonight" and it will list the movie list and description, and there will also be a direct link to buy tickets.
Life services
In addition to eating, drinking, and having fun, water and electricity, government services, and medical care are also commonly used in life. Enter "the cheapest charging pile nearby" to list the cheapest ones immediately, and you can also jump with one click to scan the code to charge immediately.
Headache and brain fever don't know what department to hang on? The intelligent assistant can provide professional advice, and can directly jump to online registration and consultation with one click.
In addition to manual typing, voice input can also be used like bean bags, which is convenient for the elderly. Other services such as paying utility bills and checking social security should not have adapted the interface, and the intelligent assistant has to "learn" to reply.
Alipay has a rich platform ecosystem, covering all aspects such as travel, medical care, living expenses, consumption, etc., and has millions of mini programs, which can provide powerful data and functional support for AI intelligent assistants. This is equivalent to ChatGPT's plug-in store, but it is omnipotent, and Alipay is simply a dimensionality reduction blow compared to it. This is also the reason why Alipay's AI intelligent assistant is so convenient and practical.
Firewood, rice, oil and salt, as well as the sea of stars
Alipay's smart assistant is still in beta, but it undoubtedly opens the door to the universalization of AI, making it easy for everyone to enjoy the convenience brought by AI. An AI that lives an ordinary life, an AI that ordinary people can use, and perhaps the AI we want more. In this era of rapid development of AI technology, aren't we looking forward to such an AI partner who can live a good life with us?