Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning

Three hikers were rescued from California’s Mount Shasta this week aft utilizing Google’s AI chatbot Gemini to program their expedition, according to the Chicago Tribune.

A study from the Siskiyou County sheriff’s bureau said that 3 young men acceptable disconnected connected their hike astatine 3am and — though hikers are told to crook astir if they haven’t reached the acme by noon — they made it to the apical astatine 7pm. 

The trio past tried to descend successful the dark, called the sheriff’s bureau to inquire for directions, and spent the nighttime successful Mud Creek Canyon earlier being rescued the adjacent greeting by Forest Service rangers and volunteers.

While it’s not wide whether Gemini tin instrumentality each the blasted for the hikers’ decisions, the sheriff’s bureau said the hikers “were advised by Gemini to bring acold little nutrient and h2o than their radical required, particularly erstwhile their planned 8-hour ascent became a multiday ordeal.”

“It is ever advisable to telephone the section USFS Mount Shasta ranger presumption up of your travel to guarantee you person the astir close information, and to ne'er trust solely connected AI for your travel planning,” the sheriff’s bureau said.