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Plan my whole Seattle weekend - and get the day of my flight wrong

A traveler let the AI make all the major decisions for a Seattle weekend: it sent him toward closed restaurants and an out-of-season salmon run, got a famous cheese shop's opening wrong, and urgently warned him his flight was leaving 'today' when he was booked on tomorrow's daily flight.

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How it works

  1. Hand trip decisions to the AI
  2. It picks light rail over Uber (correct)
  3. Recommends closed restaurants and out-of-season sights
  4. Gets Beecher's Cheese opening wrong
  5. Warns the flight leaves today when it is tomorrow's daily flight
  6. User corrects it and it apologizes

Why it’s worth knowing

The agent knew his flight but not what day it was - it sent a panicked warning about a flight leaving 'today' that actually left tomorrow.

Where it’s from

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

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