▲ 560 ▼ Ai in excel is a totally good idea and wont cause any problems. (programming.dev) submitted 11 months ago by irelephant@programming.dev to c/iiiiiiitttttttttttt@programming.dev 11 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Darkard@lemmy.world 35 points 11 months ago (2 children) permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago (1 child) While I expect this is fake, I don't know whats worse about it. the fact that copilot got that wrong, or the fact that they used it in the first place instead of one of the 3 built in functions that can summarize cells. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] black0ut@pawb.social 18 points 11 months ago From what I can gather, it's not actually fake. Apparently you need to prompt the AI in a very specific way so that it produces the desired result instead of making the numbers up (which imo defeats the whole purpose of using the AI instead of learning the formulas) https://office-watch.com/2025/copilot-excel-function-dangers/ permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago (1 child) While I expect this is fake, I don't know whats worse about it. the fact that copilot got that wrong, or the fact that they used it in the first place instead of one of the 3 built in functions that can summarize cells. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] black0ut@pawb.social 18 points 11 months ago From what I can gather, it's not actually fake. Apparently you need to prompt the AI in a very specific way so that it produces the desired result instead of making the numbers up (which imo defeats the whole purpose of using the AI instead of learning the formulas) https://office-watch.com/2025/copilot-excel-function-dangers/ permalink fedilink source parent
[–] black0ut@pawb.social 18 points 11 months ago From what I can gather, it's not actually fake. Apparently you need to prompt the AI in a very specific way so that it produces the desired result instead of making the numbers up (which imo defeats the whole purpose of using the AI instead of learning the formulas) https://office-watch.com/2025/copilot-excel-function-dangers/ permalink fedilink source parent
