Re:Great Divide in How Americans Commute to Work
by biztos on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @05:35PM
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> For more modern neighborhoods, make the roads confusing so cars won't take a shortcut through and bypass the main road.
Alas Waze and its ilk are breaking that system in a lot of European cities. It's now quite common to have quiet residential streets suddenly turn gridlock when some algorithm has correctly-but-malevolently decided it's a good shortcut for everyone getting from the office to the freeway.
When I think of a future powered by AI, I think of that kind of logic casually extinguishing all life on the planet.
Alas Waze and its ilk are breaking that system in a lot of European cities. It's now quite common to have quiet residential streets suddenly turn gridlock when some algorithm has correctly-but-malevolently decided it's a good shortcut for everyone getting from the office to the freeway.
When I think of a future powered by AI, I think of that kind of logic casually extinguishing all life on the planet.