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Comment by charlieyu1 | Hacker News Reader

A client emailed me for a meeting at Monday 2pm. The Gmail AI immediately marked Monday 2am on my calendar and it cannot even be deleted.

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It's amazon deliveries for me. Gmail gets confused about multi-item orders with different delivery dates, and I cannot click away the banners displaying on top of the mailbox. Really poor UI.

OTOH, it's nice to see that there is some innovation happening - eventually (I am an optimist) they will weed out the lousy stuff and keep the useful.

Bizarre, I can always delete things from my calendar. It sounds like an implementation bug. Did you report it?

Since when did Google pay attention to implementation bugs?

It was like a month ago, but it was not possible to delete if AI added it, even their community support confirmed so

Wow i really hope this is a mistake, that sounds like a severe bug

Well it's not a "bug". Language models make mistakes; it's a fundamental part of how they function.

This isn't LLMs. Gmail has been creating calendar events from emails for a long time. The bug would be if the user can't delete the event.

What makes you think it hasn't long been using a large language model for it though? Maybe not Large Language Model, the term seems to have come with ChatGPT et al., but Google's been doing machine learning for a long long time; the transformer architecture paper (kind of the groundwork for the current wave) was published by a Google team in 2017.

A lot of new Google features are branded 'AI', because it's so hyped it has broad consumer awareness, but a lot of Google features for a long time have used AI and just been brandless or at least 'AI'-less features.

It started about a month ago for me. I am subscribed to emails from an IT as a Gig platform called Field Nation. Thought I might pickup a bit of side work but never did.

Recently it started adding them to my calendar and there is no way to turn off this feature without also turning off useful features such as package out for delivery notifications.

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