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Google Maps Now Uses AI to Find Where People Are Having Fun (gizmodo.com)

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

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[–] Phanatik@kbin.social 25 points 1 year 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.