Reminds me of the time someone blocked a road on Google maps by bringing a bunch of phones and staying still (or something along these lines).
Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot
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Re: Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot
#52Reminds me of the time someone blocked a road on Google maps by bringing a bunch of phones and staying still (or something along these lines).
That’s hilarious, so Google interpreted it as a high traffic area?
Re: Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot
#53That sounds like a surprisingly fortunate mistake, because you would hope recommending others to go to a food bank will encourage (and actually make some of) them to give something to the needy there. The suggestion the AI makes to consider going into it on an empty stomach could help the tourist to empathise with others who are less fortunate, because those are people who feel hungry every day. (Although the suggest…
I don't understand what food banks are for. Does Canada have something like Food Stamps/WIC? Food is absurdly cheap, and not all food needs to be cooked/prepared.
Food banks are all over the USA.
There are plenty of people who have absurdly little money, and food is far from free. With children, shelter, a doctor bill and an inefficient vehicle to get to work, your minimum-wage little money can go to zero fast.
Re: Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
> They usually have much better technical advice about local culture, airports, payment, SIM cards and that sort of thing. If the locals have written any of that down or recorded it on video, the AI will have consumed it already.
I have tested AI against my own content (I'm one such local) and it was pathetically incapable. It was closer to someone guessing what the answer is. AI content feels a lot like the copywritten content it replaces: a shallow repetition of what an actual expert wrote down.
You are referring to the baby AI of today. Give it a year or five.
Re: Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
> They usually have much better technical advice about local culture, airports, payment, SIM cards and that sort of thing. If the locals have written any of that down or recorded it on video, the AI will have consumed it already.
I think the other side is true, AI gobbles lots of information, so the generic advice is going to be what is repeated. Its going to recommend seeing the touristy places, and it won't know about the hole in the wall restaurants.
It'll know about them; you just have to know what questions to ask.
Re: Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot
#56Reminds me of the time someone blocked a road on Google maps by bringing a bunch of phones and staying still (or something along these lines).
https://youtu.be/k5eL_al_m7Q
He put 99 smart phones in a wagon with all of them running Google maps in drive mode. Google interpreted this as a traffic jam, and made other cars avoid the area.
Re: Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot
#57Reminds me of the time someone blocked a road on Google maps by bringing a bunch of phones and staying still (or something along these lines).
That’s hilarious, so Google interpreted it as a high traffic area?
Re: Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot
#58Reminds me of the time someone blocked a road on Google maps by bringing a bunch of phones and staying still (or something along these lines).
A Berlin artist used 99 phones on a bicycle to trick Google into showing a traffic jam.
Re: Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot
#59Reminds me of the time someone blocked a road on Google maps by bringing a bunch of phones and staying still (or something along these lines).
That’s hilarious, so Google interpreted it as a high traffic area?
He filled a wagon with 99 phones and walked around so Google would think there was a traffic jam.
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/a-man-walke...
Re: Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot
#60I think people are reading too much into “going to it on an empty stomach”. It is not about empathy. Rather, it is being treated as a highly rated restaurant that gives you a lot of food. I have seen reviews of restaurants like buffets and other restaurants that give you a lot of food recommending you go there when you are really hungry.
If the model "understands" that a food bank hands out food without charging for it, that could be exactly the case. Although, the food bank's food still needs to be _served_ and possibly heated/cooked, so it's missing something really important. A soup kitchen would be a better mistake for it to suggest.