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> The computer is crunching numbers and probabilities of things and giving its best guess based on that, in both cases. If it's appropriate for one, it should be for the other.

Google maps isn't choosing a nearest ice cream store based on probability, it's using an algorithm designed for this purpose.



What do you percieve to be significant about this difference? I'm not saying there isn't a difference, but I fail to see why it matters.




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