silence7@slrpnk.net to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoIf you’ve got an EV, Google Maps is about to become much more valuable | New updates address one of Americans’ top concerns about owning an electric car: finding a place to chargewapo.stexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up1204arrow-down112
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minus-squarereddig33@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down10·edit-25 months agoI don’t understand why I need AI to find a charger on a map. It’s not like the charger has legs where it gets up and moves to a new location every other week.
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23arrow-down1·edit-25 months agoThe article says nothing about AI; just that EV charger location and availability is a feature being added to Google Maps.
minus-squarereddig33@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-25 months agoSorry. I assumed it was one of the other announcement articles I saw today mentioning AI. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/google-maps-will-use-ai-to-help-you-find-out-of-the-way-ev-chargers/ar-BB1lMGYU https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/google-maps-to-use-ai-to-help-ev-car-owners-charge-up/ https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/17/24132254/google-maps-ev-charging-directions-ai-summaries
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 months agoThe ML tool is a summary of the directions. That’s a plausible use of ML
I don’t understand why I need AI to find a charger on a map. It’s not like the charger has legs where it gets up and moves to a new location every other week.
The article says nothing about AI; just that EV charger location and availability is a feature being added to Google Maps.
Sorry. I assumed it was one of the other announcement articles I saw today mentioning AI.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/google-maps-will-use-ai-to-help-you-find-out-of-the-way-ev-chargers/ar-BB1lMGYU
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/google-maps-to-use-ai-to-help-ev-car-owners-charge-up/
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/17/24132254/google-maps-ev-charging-directions-ai-summaries
The ML tool is a summary of the directions. That’s a plausible use of ML