AI Fails at Answering Simple Bus Schedules
Always_Curious_One2 · reddit · 2026-07-06
During a family trip in Europe, queries to Gemini and Claude regarding simple bus schedules resulted in massive errors (off by over an hour). When pressed, both models admitted to taking shortcuts by "interpolating" answers rather than conducting precise retrieval. The author questioned the value of paid subscriptions that fail at basic queries, highlighting reliability shortcomings in factual tasks.
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