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A client emailed me for a meeting at Monday 2pm. The Gmail AI immediately marked Monday 2am on my calendar and it cannot even be deleted.

pinkmuffinere 1y ago
Wow i really hope this is a mistake, that sounds like a severe bug
- mort96 1y ago
  Well it's not a "bug". Language models make mistakes; it's a fundamental part of how they function.
  - spankalee 1y ago
    This isn't LLMs. Gmail has been creating calendar events from emails for a long time. The bug would be if the user can't delete the event.
    - OJFord 1y ago
      What makes you think it hasn't long been using a large language model for it though? Maybe not Large Language Model, the term seems to have come with ChatGPT et al., but Google's been doing machine learning for a long long time; the transformer architecture paper (kind of the groundwork for the current wave) was published by a Google team in 2017. A lot of new Google features are branded 'AI', because it's so hyped it has broad consumer awareness, but a lot of Google features for a long time have used AI and just been brandless or at least 'AI'-less features.
    - birdman3131 1y ago
      It started about a month ago for me. I am subscribed to emails from an IT as a Gig platform called Field Nation. Thought I might pickup a bit of side work but never did. Recently it started adding them to my calendar and there is no way to turn off this feature without also turning off useful features such as package out for delivery notifications.
warkdarrior 1y ago
Bizarre, I can always delete things from my calendar. It sounds like an implementation bug. Did you report it?
- ebiester 1y ago
  Since when did Google pay attention to implementation bugs?
  - observationist 1y ago
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  - spankalee 1y ago
    [flagged]
    - stronglikedan 1y ago
      That may be, but no one here will likely believe you, based on actual user experiences that have been reported here and elsewhere numerous times.
    - bombela 1y ago
      Bullshit. I worked there too. My internal bug reports were completely ignored just as much. Not a single reply. Google map webapp always resets the unit selection to "automatic" which means miles in the US. It should retain the setting in a cookie at the very least. I have been sending a bug report to Google yearly since 2012. That's 13 years, including 4 years as a Google employee with the ability to create internal bug reports. And that's just one of the bug.
      - spankalee 1y ago
        Of course it depends on the team, and so on, but the difference in severity between "can't delete a calendar event" and "doesn't remember the value of a toggle" is pretty vast. FWIW, maps on the web does seem to remember the units setting for me.
golem14 1y ago
It's amazon deliveries for me. Gmail gets confused about multi-item orders with different delivery dates, and I cannot click away the banners displaying on top of the mailbox. Really poor UI. OTOH, it's nice to see that there is some innovation happening - eventually (I am an optimist) they will weed out the lousy stuff and keep the useful.

pinkmuffinere 1y ago

Wow i really hope this is a mistake, that sounds like a severe bug

mort96 1y ago
Well it's not a "bug". Language models make mistakes; it's a fundamental part of how they function.
- spankalee 1y ago
  This isn't LLMs. Gmail has been creating calendar events from emails for a long time. The bug would be if the user can't delete the event.
  - OJFord 1y ago
    What makes you think it hasn't long been using a large language model for it though? Maybe not Large Language Model, the term seems to have come with ChatGPT et al., but Google's been doing machine learning for a long long time; the transformer architecture paper (kind of the groundwork for the current wave) was published by a Google team in 2017. A lot of new Google features are branded 'AI', because it's so hyped it has broad consumer awareness, but a lot of Google features for a long time have used AI and just been brandless or at least 'AI'-less features.
  - birdman3131 1y ago
    It started about a month ago for me. I am subscribed to emails from an IT as a Gig platform called Field Nation. Thought I might pickup a bit of side work but never did. Recently it started adding them to my calendar and there is no way to turn off this feature without also turning off useful features such as package out for delivery notifications.

warkdarrior 1y ago

Bizarre, I can always delete things from my calendar. It sounds like an implementation bug. Did you report it?

ebiester 1y ago
Since when did Google pay attention to implementation bugs?
- observationist 1y ago
  [dead]
- spankalee 1y ago
  [flagged]
  - stronglikedan 1y ago
    That may be, but no one here will likely believe you, based on actual user experiences that have been reported here and elsewhere numerous times.
  - bombela 1y ago
    Bullshit. I worked there too. My internal bug reports were completely ignored just as much. Not a single reply. Google map webapp always resets the unit selection to "automatic" which means miles in the US. It should retain the setting in a cookie at the very least. I have been sending a bug report to Google yearly since 2012. That's 13 years, including 4 years as a Google employee with the ability to create internal bug reports. And that's just one of the bug.
    - spankalee 1y ago
      Of course it depends on the team, and so on, but the difference in severity between "can't delete a calendar event" and "doesn't remember the value of a toggle" is pretty vast. FWIW, maps on the web does seem to remember the units setting for me.

golem14 1y ago

It's amazon deliveries for me. Gmail gets confused about multi-item orders with different delivery dates, and I cannot click away the banners displaying on top of the mailbox. Really poor UI. OTOH, it's nice to see that there is some innovation happening - eventually (I am an optimist) they will weed out the lousy stuff and keep the useful.