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0 pointsghaff2y ago0 comments

This is hilarious for anyone who knows the area:

"The best way to get from Lake of the Clouds Hut to Madison Springs Hut in the White Mountains is to hike along the Mt. Washington Auto Road. The distance is 3.7 miles and it should take about 16 minutes."

What it looks like it's doing is actually giving you the driving directions from the nearest road point to one hut to the nearest road point to the other hut.

An earlier version actually did give hiking directions but they were hilariously wrong even when you tried to correct it.

That said, I did ask a couple historical tech questions and they seemed better than previously--and it even pushed back on the first one I asked because it wanted me to be more specific. Which was very reasonable; it wasn't really a trick question but it's one you could take in multiple directions.

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TheFattestNinja2y ago

I mean even without knowing the area if you are hiking (which implies you are walking) 3.7 miles in 16 m then you are the apex predator of the world my friend. That's 20/25 km/h

ghaffOP2y ago

It seems to not know that hiking=walking. Although it references Google Maps for its essentially driving directions, Google Maps itself gives reasonable walking directions. (The time is still pretty silly for most people given the terrain but I don't reasonably expect Google Maps to know that.)

(Yep. If you then tell it hiking is walking it gives you a reasonable response. It used to give you weird combinations of trails in the general area even when you tried to correct it. Now, with Google Maps info, it was confused about the mode of transit but if you cleared that up, it was correct.)

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