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Comment by _the_inflator 2 days ago

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Bring up dates and times if you want to wreak havoc on any AI. :D

Developers around the world's most beloved topic, how to handle date and time correctly, is still a topic of great misunderstanding. AI and AI agents are no different from that. LLM seems to help a little, but only if you know what you are doing, as it usually needs to be the case.

Some things won't change so fast; at one point or another, data must match certain building blocks.

pixl97 a day ago

People ask why AI will exterminate human kind.

The answer is because we wouldn't universally adopt zulu time.

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kelvinjps10 a day ago

But this feature was already implemented in normal google assistant

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  • ashoeafoot a day ago

    Supporting existing projects is the oilsand mining of the promotion world. Low, old buzzword content, little reward. Implenting new buzzwords, wirh streetcred rich frameworks , thats the fracking.

    Efficiency ,capabilties or customer satisfaction are irrelevant .

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ashoeafoot a day ago

Do they fare better if given the task to sumarize a use calendars hostory first?

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droopyEyelids 2 days ago

One would think the arcana of time zones and the occasional leap second would not interfere with an individual setting egg timers often enough to become a burden

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ikiris a day ago

Except that's not the problem. its basic comprehension of requests. They aren't getting the wrong time, they try to play music, or the phone says "no timers playing" while the google home WILL NOT STOP until you lock the phone. etc.

Its basically an embarrassment for a project that's been alive this long from such a major.

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