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

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    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!

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      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.

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      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.

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        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

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    how do you define fun

    like some think clubs are fun but really they sound like hell on earth

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    I get that this apartment complex is kinda the town party house but if Google maps starts bringing tourists here we’ll riot.

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      Could you imagine throwing a party and then random people start showing up saying Google maps brought them there?

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    Search with live view, I think they will harvest that for up to date imagery / street view

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Google users can now make plans through a new Maps update that will generate events and activities by typing “things to do” into the search bar.

    Activities like art exhibitions or lists providing inspiration for things to do will now populate, giving photo-first results to users, according to a Google news release Thursday.

    Google Maps uses artificial intelligence to analyze billions of photos shared by the app’s community and focuses on specific activities.

    Its Lens feature also incorporates AI with its “Search with Live View,” creating the option to select the icon and hold up your phone to scan the area for information about nearby landmarks.

    After ChatGPT launched in November of last year, Google strove to catch up with the release of its chatbot Bard, alongside other AI endeavors across the company.

    Google has not launched SGE to the general public yet, but CEO Sundar Pichai said in a Q3 earnings call earlier this week that using AI will create “new opportunities for content to be discovered.”


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