Google assistant rule

https://lemm.ee/post/25266061

Google assistant rule - lemm.ee

The assistant said to say what time and still they gave a place. That’s on them.
Nah, “when I get to this store” is still a time. Android used to be able to handle reminding you “when” you got to a place, but I guess they dropped that feature. So IMO this is on the assistant for not doing what it used to do.
It’s a time, but it’s an unspecified one. It very specifically stated “say what time you want your reminder” after a location was given, indicating that doing it by location wasn’t an option. The user wasn’t paying enough attention.

I see what you mean, on like the fourth try the assistant explicitly said “just give me the time”.

I guess it’s philosophical whether you say the user was “wrong”. Continuing to ask wasn’t going to get the any closer to the reminder being set, so I guess you could call that “wrong” if you want to say they should be savvy enough to know that. They might have even known that but still carried on, I do that sometimes just because.

IMO this software should be pushed to adapt to natural language if they want to keep pretending it’s s m a r t. If you were asking this to a person (who was somehow always with you…) and they said “just tell me the time”, you’d say I don’t know what time it will be, just remind me whenever we get there!

The main reason I think of the user as “wrong” in this case is because they got angry at the end, fair or not!

They got angry because it forgot what the reminder was.

It asked for information A, then it asked for B repeatedly, and once that was finally settled (with an answer that is technically supportable but absolutely not what the user wanted) it then asked for A again.

If this were a real person, I would definitely be thinking “should I just ask someone else?”