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technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Fuck AI@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days ago

We put the Thing That Can't Do Numbers™ in your spreadsheets

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We put the Thing That Can't Do Numbers™ in your spreadsheets

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technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Fuck AI@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days ago
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    Smash that 👍 button let them know they did a great job.

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      I was once bored, few years earlier, and I made chatgpt think derivative of 69 is always 420 and derivative of 420 is always 69. I don’t use chatgpt anymore, or any AI tool

    • MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca
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      c/FoundSatan

  • Godnroc@lemmy.world
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    There are 15 non-whitespace characters in “the numbers above”.

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    I mean make sense, 1+2=3; 3+3=6; and you count the taxes +9 there you go, you got 15

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      No it’s 1+(2+3)=1+5=15

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    It’s weird that AI can’t do things that computers are so good at.

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      Because it’s not doing math. It’s looking for something that’s commonly said when those characters are used.

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        Probably trained on JavaScript or some other weakly typed language with side effects and poor code. Or some meme from reddit:

        3+2=5

        “1”+5=15

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    AI is going to delete the S&P 500

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    Math — the thing AI is famously good at.

  • quick_snail@feddit.nl
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    Sorry judge, the books were cooked by AI

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    I wouldn’t worry. It’s not like an Excel error has ever caused human suffering at a global scale or anything, right?

    https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-excel-spreadsheet-error-that-justified-global-austerity

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    Are they having copilot directly execute the operations? I thought it was copilot generating the proper excel query to do the operation you need done and then you just had a regular spreadsheet at the end of it.

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    Why would you use a LLM there? It’s especially bad with numbers, and SUM is still a thing.

    What it can do is things with language or text comprehension, which is next to impossible without AI. Still error prone but it can be a real time saver.

    If you try to use a hammer to saw a plank, you are going to have a bad time.

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    I thought copilot in excel was supposed to generate formulae, not values! That’s insane!

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      Microsoft recommends against using the copilot function in the way it is shown in this post.

      To ensure reliability and to use it responsibly, avoid using COPILOT for Numerical calculation

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        Tasks with legal, regulatory or compliance implications: Avoid using AI-generated outputs for financial reporting, legal documents, or other high-stakes scenarios.

        Show of hands, whose coworkers read the .txt?

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    Please no. I work with Excel a lot. Please. I have children.

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