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Google Gemini struggles to color calendar events correctly
Original: Weird experience with Google # gemini - getting it to create several calendar events on different days at different time
A user reports that Google Gemini handled a complex calendar task flawlessly, creating several events across different days and times in a single prompt, but repeatedly failed at one simple step: setting the events' color to 'Beetroot'. The anecdote highlights how AI assistants can excel at multi-step planning while stumbling on small, seemingly trivial details, sparking amused discussion about the quirks of AI tool integration.
Why now: People find it striking and amusing that an AI can master a complex task yet fail at something as simple as picking the right event color
Evidence
- Weird experience with Google # gemini - getting it to create several calendar events on different days at different times worked great, one shot. But it can't successfully set the color of the events to "Beetroot" for love nor money. Every time I ask, it changes the color to… · hearth@blazinghearth.org · 1
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