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by hellameta 3552 days ago
I'm surprised at this "Apple not AI" narrative. I've had Google Maps & Waze on my iPhone for years and neither of them seamlessly turned on "where did I park my car" feature. I just turned my iPhone on one morning and it just told me. Now, mind you, this may not be a fancy deep learning model. It could be some simple linear model, maybe a tree model, hell, maybe it's hardcoded rules? But despite these things Apple delivered a great feature which is in the realm of what I would consider "AI enabled feature".

Mind you, I don't have an Android device, so maybe Google Maps does this automatically for you on Andriod. It doesn't do it on the iPhone, at least not automatically (aka. I don't bother to look it up, which is kind of the point).
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xenobioticants 3552 days ago
It uses a combination of Bluetooth (if you're near/connected to your car's stereo), motion sensor and GPS.

If you started moving at 70KM/h nowhere near a train or bus station, and then suddenly stopped moving at that speed and shortly after started moving at 5KM/h, you've clearly just got out of your car. Use bluetooth for extra verification if possible. When certain, get location (or load location) from GPS and mark spot. Tadaa, no fancy learning model needed.

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hellameta 3552 days ago
Those sound like features that would be perfect for a learning model, otherwise you're stuck hardcoding the conditions and thresholds, no?

edit: anyway, besides the point.. I just love that feature haha

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xenobioticants 3552 days ago
Yeah didn't mean to sound that abrasive.. damn booze.

It is a nice feature indeed

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petre 3552 days ago
Acutally not neccessarily. You can as well end up in a traffic jam. In fact that's how they display traffic info on maps: many phone users doing what you just described.
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dmoy 3552 days ago
It's not Google Maps, but rather Google Now that has the "where did I park my car" for quite awhile (2.5 years) now:

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/6015842?hl=en

Google Now generally seems to be where all that automated stuff goes, so if you don't use it that would explain why you don't see any of it.

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NicoJuicy 3552 days ago
Google Now does this automaticly for a very long time. They don't have enough permissions on iOS, I suppose.

Cross referenced it, because Cortana can't do it in iOS for that reason

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hellameta 3552 days ago
Well, not surprised of course! Anyway, perhaps I'm just a simple man, ... besides searching the web, I think that's the best AI type feature for the consumer yet!
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