Google Maps Now Uses AI to Find Where People Are Having Fun

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• AngryHumanoid@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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!

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  • Nougat@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • Salamendacious@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Block chain machine learning synergy

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  • Phanatik@kbin.social ⁨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.

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  • dojan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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, convoluted phrenology. They were making a digital racist uncle.

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    • WoodenBleachers@lemmy.basedcount.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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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  • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The meme on every statisticians LinkedIn group is thar AI and ML is just general regression models with a fancy hat.

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• smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  When at the backstage to find where people are grouping for protest.

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  • Eggyhead@artemis.camp ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Most important comment right here.

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• Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Google is improving Maps

  No they’re not. I use it every single day, and it’s actively getting worse.

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  • Salamendacious@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I haven’t noticed it getting worse what problems are you seeing?

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    • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      • 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

      • 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

      • Connected to Android Auto select “Start” multiple times, nothing ever happens on phone or vehicle screen

      • GPS stops sensing at all for no reason, other apps still work

      • Doesn’t know the names of places I added to Google maps, either in Labeled, Favorites, or Starred places

      • Forgets my custom maps that I refer to every day

      • Voice: “Report hazard on road” Response: “That feature haven’t been implemented yet” Oh yeah? It works in Waze, which you bought years ago!

      • 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…

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• _number8_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  how do you define fun

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

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• TonyHawksPoTater@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Reports say they're working toward a Footlose-inspired technocracy.

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  • AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Fun will now require a subscription to google plus.

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    • Salamendacious@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      ahh Google+ it could have been nothing and completely lived up to its potential

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  • Blademax@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Peter Quill : Exactly like Footloose. Is it still the greatest movie in history?

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• paddirn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well I guess AI will never find me then.

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• 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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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  • Salamendacious@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  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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• Oaksey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• dynamo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  goddamnit.

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• TonyHawksPoTater@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Reports say they're working toward a Footlose-inspired technocracy

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