Google is improving Maps with features including where to find EV charging stations and in-depth visualization.
Wow, they’re using Artificial Intelligence to do the same thing predictive analytics has been doing for over 50 years, what a time to be alive!
I’m a data analyst moving into data science. I have been ranting about this since the beginning but everyone’s too obsessed with the new shiny thing.
It’s just an optimisation algorithm that’s learned certain words have different probabilities of occurring depending on context.
I had to remind my friend, “when it tells you something, it has no idea what it’s just told you” because that’s all it really does; it spits out text on a guessed context but has no precognition of that context.
Reminds me of an article I read a few years ago about an Israeli start up aiming to use AI to analyse images of people and detect what they are likely to work with. Doctor, teacher, terrorist, etc.
Basically phrenology. They were making a digital racist uncle.
If the model is accurate though, I’d be okay with it. I understand it’ll never be perfect and laws should be put in place banning people being arrested or interrogated just for that kind of suspicion, but still
Except that is literally judging you from how you look. And you don’t think actual bad actors will try to trick the system?
When at the backstage to find where people are grouping for protest.
Google is improving Maps
No they’re not. I use it every single day, and it’s actively getting worse.
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I mentioned in another post, but pointlessly (AI?) segmenting the same straight road or highway so you think your next turn or exit is way sooner
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Search: “Carl’s Jr”, wants me to turn around and drive for hours, rather than guiding me to the one 15 min away on my route
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Connected to Android Auto select “Start” multiple times, nothing ever happens on phone or vehicle screen
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GPS stops sensing at all for no reason, other apps still work
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Doesn’t know the names of places I added to Google maps, either in Labeled, Favorites, or Starred places
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Forgets my custom maps that I refer to every day
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Voice: “Report hazard on road” Response: “That feature haven’t been implemented yet” Oh yeah? It works in Waze, which you bought years ago!
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Some streets incorrect in navigation, despite being correct on the map… Obviously I’m not the only one who doesn’t know how I would even report that, seeing how they’ve been wrong for years…
I’ll let you know if I think of anything else…
I personally had only bad experiences with Google maps while traveling abroad. Like it cannot comprehend that im not in brazil anymore and dosen’t know where i am. If I ask for restaurants or grocery recommendations close to me it just gave me global results, like why the fuck are you reccomend me restaurants in England and New York while im on Buenos Aires?
how do you define fun
like some think clubs are fun but really they sound like hell on earth
Reports say they’re working toward a Footlose-inspired technocracy.
