ask-amac
New York's first AI-powered tourist guide
ask-amac is a free New York tour guide you can talk to in your native language. Ask what's worth doing — free parks and museums, cheap eats, tours, neighborhoods, what's on this week — and get the answer in the language you asked in. The site itself is published in 8 languages, with no account and no ticket.
- Answers in whatever language you type; the site is in English, Arabic, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Ukrainian
- Ask by voice: speech is transcribed on our own GPU
- Five borough guides with 60 hand-picked places
- Day plans with the subway worked out
- What's on this week, refreshed daily
- Visitor messages are safety-screened with Llama Guard 3
How AI is embedded
Every answer is written by Gemma 4 on our own DGX Spark. Before it answers, ask-amac screens the message with Llama Guard 3 and pulls matching places and events from a New York knowledge base using vector search in Qdrant. Voice questions are transcribed on the same GPU. Gemma 4 also translated the site into its 7 other languages, with automatic quality checks before anything was published.
Models
- Gemma 4local
- Llama Guard 3local
- Whisper speech-to-textlocal
- Embeddingslocal
Subway map adapted from New York City Subway Diagram by CountZ, CC BY-SA 3.0