Google is improving Maps with features including where to find EV charging stations and in-depth visualization.

  • @AngryHumanoid@reddthat.com
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    8611 months ago

    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!

    • Nougat
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      4511 months ago

      It’s almost like they just started calling the old thing by a new name!

    • Phanatik
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      2611 months ago

      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.

    • Dojan
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      11 months ago

      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.