LibreOffice Calc glows harder
How expensive was this to run for them? I kind of wanted to test it since there is a few outputs which would’ve been cool to see it be generated.
But I can imagine a 200 row sheet with COPILOT() being slow and very expensive to have.
Oh well
And not even guaranteed to be accurate
I can’t imagine anything more useless than a nondeterministic Excel function.
WHAT ABOUT RAND()? CHECKMATE AI HATERS!!! (/s)
Randomness can still be deterministic and useful. Monte Carlo simulations and whatnot
What, you don’t appreciate when your excel function just makes shit up? Weird …
I realize this is the wrong community to post it in, but I can imagine it being useful for things like summarization and cursory sentiment analysis, and perhaps for chaotic test data generation.
As with all AI, though, it’s a wildly risky tool as it requires the user to understand its limitations and fallibility (as well as the million other issues AI brings with it).
It has some reasonable use-cases when dealing with text, the problem is that it’s extremely easy for idiots to misuse it, either by trying to do math or by not supplying any cells in the optional second argument.
Not requiring the second argument was nuts, and it should probably have refused any query resulting in a number as well.
Ah yes, those idiots trying to do math in Excel.
Idiots using a function without understanding what it actually does. Plenty of functions in Excel operate on text.
Or trying to do text in excel?!
You may not like it, but Excel has long been the tool of choice for people who should really use a database but already know how to use this nice hammer.
COPILOT()was marketed as a tool where you could pull in a bunch of text fields and do crude sentiment analysis or summations on the individual fields, for example.
It has some reasonable use-cases when dealing with text
NOO! IT BREAKS MY WORKFLOW!! /s
Don’t worry, you can just replace it with a call to
RAND()and scale it appropriately.
Wonder whose was the excel sheet in which someone asked copilot to do some math and resulted in a few millions lost by “a honest mistake” of the artificial idiocy…
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