<div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif">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.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif">That moment — the same input producing different outputs — is the reason AI alone is not the future of GIS automation.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif">It is also why deterministic automation matters more now than it did five years ago.  Find out why in the article below.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"><a href="https://geospatialtraining.com/the-determinism-gap-why-ai-doesnt-replace-gis-automation/">Read the entire article</a></p><div><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Eric Pimpler<div>President/Owner</div><div>Geospatial Training Services</div><div>215 W Bandera #114-104</div><div>Boerne, TX 78006</div><div><a href="http://geospatialtraining.com" target="_blank">http://geospatialtraining.com</a></div><div>Twitter - @gistraining</div><div>Instagram - @eric_pimpler</div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBsovhqqh9xWnuTESkQdtkg" target="_blank">YouTube</a></div><div><a href="mailto:eric@geospatialtraining.com" target="_blank">eric@geospatialtraining.com</a></div><div>210-260-4992</div><div><img width="200" height="79" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4zH0t7YckIWXbK74Fcnz4OoIAPMMnKkeioKrH037kPtxGmWK37uZQScakRvnDdUKHWjoF10hoU"><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>