Microsoft says its Agent Mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in SpreadsheetBench, a benchmark for evaluating an AI model’s ability to edit real world spreadsheets.
It generates 42.8% bullshit.
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The best cancers of both worlds.
They're out smarting the sheet that's for sure.
So let me fast forward a bit, ->underpaid stressed out techworkers in the global south pretending to be AI for incompetent upper management in wealthy countries?
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5 comments in c/technology@beehaw.org view that post
Microsoft Clippy says "Hello. You appear to be making an invoice. I can help!" Only we're not making an invoice, and Clippy cannot help.
I can count the number of times that I have looked in an Excel sheet and thought, "I wish this was subtly wrong due to subtle changes made by a hallucination engine." It is zero.
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In the same way vibe coding has transformed software development
So, that is to say, they expect it to have no impact on serious work whatsoever?
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Future generations are already looking at us with great deep unforgiving disappointment. We failed as a species.
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