You can now ask Google Maps’ AI to order food for you

The AI-powered “Ask Maps” instrumentality successful Google Maps tin now execute a broader scope of personalized and conversational requests, including ordering food, uncovering hotels, and providing suggestions that facet successful your existing plans. These are among respective caller features announced for Ask Maps today, which purpose to “make it easier than ever to get much done” without having to adjacent the Google Maps app, according to Google Maps head, Miriam Daniel.

New agentic capabilities see asking Maps to bid you nutrient while considering contextual accusation for illustration circumstantial dietary needs, location, and places you’ve saved. For example, Google says you tin inquire it to “order spicy pad kee mao pinch seafood for maine to prime up connected my measurement home” earlier leaving work, and Ask Maps will find unfastened restaurants on your way backmost that service that meal. When you prime a restaurant, Ask Maps tin automatically adhd the crockery to your cart truthful you tin complete the order. Food ordering is rolling retired pinch partners for illustration Square and Toast now, according to Google, pinch Uber Eats support coming soon.

Ask Maps tin now find hotels and section events that suit your circumstantial requirements, specified arsenic having a peculiar artistic aliases being wrong stepping region of gyms, restaurants, and different facilities. Maps besides now allows you to lend and edit location accusation conversationally via Ask Maps aliases the Contribute tab. This includes uploading photographs for illustration storefront signs that Maps will automatically extract accusation from, specified arsenic updated opening hours, earlier asking you to corroborate the proposal earlier it’s submitted.

Food ordering, discovering hotels and events, and conversational contributions are rolling retired now successful the US, pinch much countries to travel complete time.

Google Maps has started adding Personal Intelligence excessively — a Gemini-powered characteristic that personalizes AI responses by connecting to information from different Google apps. This enables the Ask Maps instrumentality to automatically see existing plans for illustration upcoming flights aliases meal reservations erstwhile responding to your requests. Personal Intelligence tin link Ask Maps to your Gmail to commencement (which is abnormal by default, according to Google), pinch support for different apps for illustration Calendar coming soon.

Lastly, real-time transit accusation has besides been added to the Ask Maps feature, allowing you to cheque unrecorded updates for immoderate delays to your adjacent bus, train, subway, aliases ferry ride. The unrecorded transit widget and much personalized responses are rolling retired now to everyplace Ask Maps is disposable — which arsenic of today, has been expanded to see Australia, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Japan and Mexico.