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Before satnav we'd need to use an A-Z, we would learn the route and eventually not need the A-Z. With satnav I can drive to the same place 5 times and I don't know the route. This is AI today. (lazysoci.al)
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[–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Yeah I'm not suggesting using a maps app teaches route/wayfinding at all.

When it says to turn you still need to recognize the street direction, signs, signals, etc to decide you CAN turn that way and you also know when you've reached your destination because you're where you need to be. It's not probability and it can't lie to you without you knowing. You still have to be a competent driver.

AI chats don't have any indication of reasoning nor built-in fact checking. If you just want an answer you are not functionally obliged to check it, there is no built in safeguard.

In the same way navigation apps offload the skill of wayfinding, AI apps offload the skill of critical thinking.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Ah, yeah, that's fair. They degenerate some of your decision making, but not to the point where you can't drive at all. I think it's still probability-based in the end, but not to the same extent as AI, like how it's not going to tell you to drive onto a park trail the way AI might if it were in charge.

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