AI aces complex questions but miserably fails at looking up one train schedule
Brave_Recognition798 · reddit · 2026-10-25
A user tried to verify a vintage-era train trip — a website needs only the train number and date. GPT instead checked the Internet Archive thinking it was a future trip, then crawled the train company's site and failed miserably, while the user found it in minutes of manual clicking. Both Claude and GPT then offered the useless reply of I can confirm it if you find it yourself. A telling case of models' counterintuitive weakness at simple, non-standard web navigation.
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