The AI and Siri both failed to put his son's basketball calendar on the family calendar

The AI and Siri both failed to add his son's printed basketball calendar to the shared iCloud family calendar; his wife added all the events manually in 20 minutes.

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How it works

He asks the AI and Siri to add his son's printed basketball calendar to the shared family calendar
Both fail
His wife adds all the events manually in 20 minutes

Why it’s worth knowing

A printed sheet beat two assistants at once.

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Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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