To: Mike Powell
  Re: ai sucks
  By: Mike Powell to JAS HUD on Thu Mar 28 2024 08:55 am

 >
 > Transportation issues -- the largest school system in Kentucky hired a
 > company that used AI to help them with bus routes.  The result was a
 > "staggered start" system where kids start and end school at different
 > times.  I forget when the last end time was supposed to be, but it was
 > before 5pm.  On the first day, there are some kids that didn't get home
 > until after 9pm.  The system cancelled school for a week, promising that
 > they'd fix it.
 >


that's sad that they would take that approach when they could have asked veteran
drivers for feedback. I bet someone that worked there 10+ years would have
better information than any company that uses AI.

 > Kids are still not getting home in places until after 7pm, and kids that
 > live within walking distance of schools (but who are not allowed by the
 > system to walk home) are spending an hour or more on busses each
 > afternoon/evening.

That reminds me when my mom paid for me to go to a private school for a year.
it was six miles away.  They wanted me to be picked up at 4:30am. school started
at 7am or something.
It's a 13min drive from my house.   i got home over 2 hrs after school.

The bus would pick up children in a different sequence and bounce all over town.
they had bad managment too.

 > Apparently the AI could take into account traffic patterns, etc., but not
 > the minds and actions of youngsters.

maybe they should use ants like the subway system story. if THAT is even real.
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