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Or use Google’s Duplex AI to call businesses and, pretending to be human, just ask for their hours.

Though Google canned Duplex just a couple weeks ago: https://www.engadget.com/google-duplex-on-the-web-shutdown-a...

Sure, it probably will hapgen and work, but it feels so wasteful to use AI when we could have just[0] had everyone post the information in machine readable format to start with.

[0] I'm aware that "just" having everyone converge on even a handful of standard formats is, in the real world, a high bar. I do think we could do it - yes, probably by Google applying pressure - but adoption remains Hard.

This is the sort of task where you start out saying “let’s use AI to do it” and then instead hire hundreds of contractors in Bangladesh. That’s how a lot of other maps features get there.