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The AI could not turn 20 dates in an email into calendar events

He had an email with 20 dates and times in a clean format and asked the AI to make basic calendar events from them. The AI could not do it at all.

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How it works

  1. Asks the AI to create calendar events from a list of 20 dates and times in an email
  2. The AI cannot create the events

Why it’s worth knowing

The list was already clean and simple, 20 dates and times, and the AI still could not make the events.

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Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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