My new AI assistant completely failed to understand a simple request about my schedule

I asked it to move a meeting from 3 PM to 4 PM last Tuesday. It sent a cancellation for the 3 PM meeting and then created a brand new, separate event for 4 PM with a different title and no attendees. I had to go into my calendar and manually fix the mess, which took about fifteen minutes. Everyone seems to think these tools are flawless, but that's a pretty basic function to get wrong. Has anyone else had a simple scheduling bot fail in a weird way?

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williams.holly17d ago

My calendar bot did the same thing last month. It kept making duplicate events when I tried to reschedule a weekly check-in. I found that being super specific works better. I started saying "please change the existing 'Team Sync' event from 3 to 4 PM" instead of just asking to move it. That seemed to help it understand it's one event, not two separate tasks.

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the_hugo17d ago

Wait you had to tell it "please" to make it work right? That's WILD.