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The Comcast one looks like a report generated on 31st of each month... so Feb, Apr, Jun, Sep, Nov get postponed to the start of the following month. I guess...
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Well, Stewart's problem is that he didn't say which kind of dollars he wanted to translate to, so Google just made something up. (It gave me the same result when I tried it, although spelling out the names "pounds" and "dollars" got an answer, although it didn't realise that I meant to convert from Egyptian pounds to Kiribati dollars...)
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I'm wondering if the pound symbol did something funky with how Google read the search query? As it's not in the 7-bit ASCII table, there is a chance something somewhere caused it to be seen as something else. I know we're all supposed to be using some form of Unicode, but maybe a code page was used that mapped the pound symbol to something that's not a pound symbol when Google finally saw it.
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The story explicitly gave the text for the dialog box, and that text included "click here". The dialog box doesn't support hyperlinks, but the developer didn't (or couldn't) push back on the requirements, so they made it make as much sense as they could.
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send them when you can. I'm happy to exchange them for inches
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In the first one, in all fairness, symbols were used instead of writing the specific currencies. "15 GBP to USD" would get the right result.
Symbols like £ and $ are both used by multiple countries each and thus ambiguous when there's no context.
Also note the use of "to" instead of "in" in my example. The latter is short for inches and so it looks like it took the expression as 15 inches to <unknown> and assumed one of the most common unit conversions.
Also, it's not really "AI" related as unit conversions on google have been around for well over a decade.
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Maybe all the WTF's on the Internet means there are templates in the AI training data.
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We could be looking at it from the wrong angle. It could be that AI is getting so bored with our questions that it's handing us a draft version instead, with all the TODOs left in.
Clearly, we need to devote more funding to AIs playing games.
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Easy: Google removes all the "special characters", and then explains that the remaining "15 in" are 15 inches…
Also, I'd almost bet that the visibility levels in BBB are configurable, and just set up like that by the German education institution the submitter works for…
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"Click here" with an "here" button is the kind of facetious joke I'd pull just to see if QA/UX is paying any attention.
And obviously they shipped that so... Kudos to whoever did that!
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What the Ferry? Or do you mean WTFery (one R)?
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That Google one is odd. It'll give the correct answer for £10, £20, £40 and £50 - but not for £30 or seemingly any other value. Baffled as to how you'd code something so wrong. AI I suspect to blame, or it's Google continuing on its path to be the most useless search engine.
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Yeah, like "give me the month name of the 31st day of month N". I can easily see that happening in JavaScript. Dates are hard. :)
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You wouldn't have problem if you asked about "15 GBP to USD" ;)
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BigBlueButton (or rather Greenlight) visibillity labels are the same in English:
https://github.com/bigbluebutton/greenlight/blob/master/app/models/recording.rb#L20-L26
Did not dig into the source what they do, though.
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Turns out it's real hard for humans to write short unambiguous clauses. Who knew? :forehead smack:
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Oh yeah, AI isn't nearly I until it tells you to do your own goshdarned homework, it's good for you, you'll need it later in life.
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Finally! I've been looking for the "Any"-key for decades, but now, at least there's a "here"-button!