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TUI
employees now have the opportunity to build their own personal AI assistant.
With just a few clicks, the potential of generative artificial intelligence can
be utilised in the daily work environment via an internal platform. No IT
expertise is required. Whether it's about evaluating complex Excel
spreadsheets, writing hotel descriptions or creating personal goals for
internal career planning: AI assistants take on these tasks.
During
the test phase, more than 200 individual AI assistants have been built – and
used thousands of times. More than 2,000 employees have tested the platform in
just a few weeks. Today, more than 400 assistants are available. The platform –
internally called the ‘TUI AI Assistant Store’ – is open to all employees and
makes it easy to share created AI assistants with colleagues. If they do not
want to create their personal assistant, they can browse the platform for AI
assistants relevant to their work or be invited to use specific assistants by
colleagues. In the past weeks alone, 50 million words and more than 15 million
document pieces have been processed on the platform, making day-to-day business
easier.
“Our
developers have been working on AI since 2016. And today, we use more than 15
per cent of our cloud capacity for AI applications. Our focus is on integrating
the technology into our processes and platforms. At the same time, we are
ensuring that our teams also benefit from the potential of generative
artificial intelligence in their day-to-day work with the TUI AI Assistant
Store. It was important to us to have an offering that is easy for everyone to
use and that guarantees the highest level of security for personal and company
data,” says Pieter Jordaan, Member of the Group Executive Committee and Chief
Information Officer of TUI Group.
The
introduction of the TUI AI Assistant Store increases the efficiency of TUI
employees. The AI assistants enable teams to focus on the essentials – personal
interaction with customers, quality-enhancing work content or strategic work –
and to automate repetitive tasks more effectively. Initial evaluations show the
potential: an AI assistant built specifically for TUI's British ski holiday
brand has led to time savings of up to 80 percent in the creation of hotel
descriptions for the website. Instead of two to three hours, it now takes only
20 to 30 minutes to create content that is both target group-oriented and
SEO-optimised.
The
AI assistants perform specialised tasks that require extensive contextual
knowledge to be completed successfully. The platform enables teams to
independently provide this contextual knowledge in the form of presentations,
overviews or text documents. The technology used for the TUI Assistants
will help IT teams accelerate the roll-out of safe and reliable GenAI features
for TUI´s app and website.
The
tech background:
The
TUI AI Assistant Store was developed by internal technology teams. They combine
a range of technologies that can be used securely via Amazon Web Services (AWS)
and meet TUI's diverse requirements. The AI assistants are based on a powerful
GenAI model. Access to this is provided securely via Amazon Bedrock, a fully
managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models
through a single API. The models can be enriched with TUI data. To this end,
TUI Technology teams have developed a customised RAG (Retrieval-Augmented
Generation) pipeline to process the information provided by TUI employees.
High-performance vector databases are provided via the AWS OpenSearch Service.
Multilingual embedding models are merged using advanced software design
patterns to provide a high-performance, secure service to support TUI
employees.
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Credit: © TUI Group
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