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My AI assistant tried to book a flight to the wrong Springfield last month
I was at home trying to plan a trip to Springfield, Missouri for a conference. I asked my voice assistant to find flights, and it pulled up options for Springfield, Illinois without asking which one. I almost booked a non-refundable ticket before I caught the mistake. It took me 20 minutes to cancel and start over with the right city. I had to be super specific and double-check every detail after that. Has anyone else had an AI mix up locations with the same name?
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vera_brown406mo ago
My smart thermostat once tried to set the temperature for Springfield, Massachusetts when I live in Springfield, Oregon. It pulled the wrong weather data for a whole day because of the name mix up. These systems really need to use your device's location as the main clue before guessing. I had to dig into the app settings to manually lock it to my local forecast.
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sandrashah6mo ago
Actually most smart thermostats do use your device's location first, but sometimes the GPS data is just wrong or fuzzy. You probably just got a bad location ping that day.
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derek994mo ago
Vera's thermostat story is wild. That same GPS fuzziness almost had my phone routing me to a totally different state once. Location data is garbage half the time.
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