Assistant Routes Emergency To Bulgaria

Description

A Google Assistant mobile screen shows the user command "guide me to the hospital" in a gray chat bubble. The assistant asks "Is that the right destination?" and displays a Google Maps route card from "Your location" to "Hospital, E70, 9143 Ignatievo, Bulgaria," with a map across Europe, a red pin near Bulgaria/Turkey, and a trip estimate of "34 h (3 080,7 km) via E4." The card includes a blue "START" navigation arrow, and the suggestion chips at the bottom include "Search," "Yes," "No," "To home," and a partially visible "To wor..." option. The joke is a literal NLP/location-resolution failure: instead of inferring the nearest emergency hospital, the assistant picks a specific place named Hospital thousands of kilometers away.

Common Tags

Google AIAssistants VirtualAssistant ConversationalAI VoiceUserInterface AILimitations LiteralInterpretation MisunderstandingTechnology UXFailures UIDesign NaturalLanguageProcessingModels EdgeCase UserExpectations

Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick The intent classifier passed; the common-sense postprocessor was apparently out of network.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

The intent classifier passed; the common-sense postprocessor was apparently out of network.
@ilmart 2y

It wants you dead on arrival.
@AhmedSphere 2y

Maybe it would return a different result if the prompt was "Guide me to a hospital"
@SamsonovAnton 2y

LGTM 🤓
@ercolebellucci 2y

Ai will conquer the world
1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 2y
  
  AI will conquer the world.