alt Hacker NewsBring 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.
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Google AI Overview incorrectly identified the day for a given date due to a timezone conversion issue, likely using PST instead of IST. ChatGPT and Perplexity provided more accurate and detailed responses.
I detailed it on my blog here https://shekhargulati.com/2025/03/23/google-ai-overview-has-...
But this feature was already implemented in normal google assistant
Do they fare better if given the task to sumarize a use calendars hostory first?
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
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.
People ask why AI will exterminate human kind.
The answer is because we wouldn't universally adopt zulu time.