[gis_info] The Determinism Gap: Why AI Doesn’t Replace GIS Automation

[Eric Pimpler]

A planner sits down with ChatGPT and asks for help finding suitable parcels
for a new fire station. They paste in a description of the criteria —
inside the city limits, outside the floodplain, at least two acres, within
half a mile of a major road. The model returns a ranked list. The planner
runs the same prompt the next morning to double-check, and the list is
slightly different. A few parcels have moved up. A few have dropped off.
The criteria didn’t change. Neither did the data.

That moment — the same input producing different outputs — is the reason AI
alone is not the future of GIS automation.

It is also why deterministic automation matters more now than it did five
years ago.  Find out why in the article below.

Read the entire article
<https://geospatialtraining.com/the-determinism-gap-why-ai-doesnt-replace-gis-automation/>


-- 
Eric Pimpler
President/Owner
Geospatial Training Services
215 W Bandera #114-104
Boerne, TX 78006
http://geospatialtraining.com
Twitter - @gistraining
Instagram - @eric_pimpler
YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBsovhqqh9xWnuTESkQdtkg>
eric at geospatialtraining.com
210-260-4992
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://omls.oregon.gov/pipermail/gis_info/attachments/20260514/a3b83e28/attachment.html>