A long way to avoid a toll!
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 9:37pm
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16 years
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I asked my Street Pilot to calculate a trip from Columbus, OH, to Meredith, NH. I was shocked that it was a 2300+ mile trip, taking me to NH via Minneapolis, north of the Great Lakes into Canada, and then to NH.
Then I checked the settings and found that I had told it to avoid toll roads. I changed that and asked it to find the route again and it was about 820 miles.
It seems that there should be some other option besides going around the Great Lakes to avoid the toll roads!
Just thought it was funny: I would not have blindly followed the first route, even though it was the "fastest route" available! 
Symptomatic of AI
It seems that there should be some other option besides going around the Great Lakes to avoid the toll roads!
Just thought it was funny: I would not have blindly followed the first route, even though it was the "fastest route" available!
Having read many articles on lack of progress in Artificial Intelligence, your story describes the problem. Your unit defines "fastest" in only the way it has been programmed to do. It will be a long time, if ever, before technology can develop some modicum of "common sense".
Most humans have common sense so, just as you did, the route would be immediately questioned.
Wonder what would have happened if your choice had been "shortest route"?
Good story though.
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This (the GPS) is not AI. It's a computer that does what is inputted. It's garbage in, garbage out. Or, to put in another way, PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Computer).
We need to be mindful!
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Same thing but all the way
Same thing but all the way around SF Bay Area, when we are north of bridge, on hill overlooking SF & GG bridge....
GG Bridge is a toll....
A 2689LMT in both our cars that we love... and a Nuvi 660 with Lifetime Maps that we have had literally forever.... And a 2011 Ford Escape with Nav System that is totally ignored!
Detour
I get that sometimes too. Seems i can hit detour a bunch of times and eventually it does give me what i want, not that that helps if your going into a strange place.
2 DriveSmart 65's - We do not live in Igloo's and do not all ride to work on snow mobiles.
PEBKAC
Or, to put in another way, PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Computer).
Isn't that just a wire? Or radio waves in the case of high tech wireless keyboards?
I always heard that saying as "Problem exists between keyboard and CHAIR".
PICNIC
Or, to put in another way, PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Computer).
Isn't that just a wire? Or radio waves in the case of high tech wireless keyboards?
I always heard that saying as "Problem exists between keyboard and CHAIR".
That's the way that I've always heard of it. It could also be a PICNIC (Problem in Chair, Not in Computer).
Kevin
So that's why...
It could also be a PICNIC (Problem in Chair, Not in Computer).
Kevin
So that's why I always hear our desktop support guys saying their job was a PICNIC today!
Errors
It could also be a PICNIC (Problem in Chair, Not in Computer).
Kevin
So that's why I always hear our desktop support guys saying their job was a PICNIC today!
Yes, it's CHAIR - indicating user error.
PEBKAC ==> Problem exists between keyboard and chair
PICNIC ==> Problem in chair, not in computer
EYE-DEE-TEN-TEE ==> ID10T
I don't use the last one when speaking with my users but I have used the first two on the job.
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