Microsoft Warns Excel's New AI Function 'Can Give Incorrect Responses' in High-Stakes Scenarios
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- News link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/08/20/128217/microsoft-warns-excels-new-ai-function-can-give-incorrect-responses-in-high-stakes-scenarios
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[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/761338/microsoft-excel-ai-copilot-spreadsheet-cell-filling
The Megajoule PRNG (Score:1)
Why use a millijoule when a Megajoule can do the same thing.
Excel no longer fit for purpose. (Score:4, Insightful)
If it can't give the right answer and not only that you've got a spreadsheet application that's literally just making shit up then it's time to stop using it.
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Said every single upper management person.
But of course... (Score:3)
...even in high-stakes scenarios they won't allow you to turn CoPilot off entirely so that it won't put you at risk, oh no.
They also forget to acknowledge that while regulatory correctness is of course of big importance when it comes to those sensitive environments, correctness of calculations is EQUALLY important for an average Joe who's doing his sheets for personal reason.
But they always think about the collectives and shit on the potential impact on individuals...
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Your ideology is showing. This has nothing to do with 'the collectives' or the individual.
It is about a bunch of idiots being entranced by their newest toy, "AI" and thinking 'We should use it EVERYWHERE".
Re: But of course... (Score:2)
Well... Yes. It's my comment. Of course it projects my own ideology. Whose else would it be? Santa Clause's?
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Justifying latest tech scam?
I wonder what is in the flavor-aide the executive tech bros are all drinking deeply of for the last 5 years.
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You can't turn it off because they need to be able to monitor you for training data. Microsoft Windows will now monitor absolutely everything you do with every moment so that Microsoft can train their AIs to replace you.
You're digging your own digital grave and you don't have a choice thanks to 50 years of zero antitrust law enforcement.
It's a political problem not an economic one but people don't like to hear that so...
We know. (Score:5, Funny)
You told us it was AI. Saying it gives incorrect responses is redundant.
Re: We know. (Score:2)
Should have been called Artificial Information.
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Or, better, Artificial Ignorance.
This copilot (Score:2)
is like the one who locks the door to the cockpit while you're taking a leak and then flies the plane into a mountainside.
Just a toy. (Score:4, Insightful)
That's what it is. We're giving adult people a rattle and make them believe it's a spaceship. Too bad there won't be anyone responsible to change their nappy when they shit themselves while playing.
WTF?!! (Score:4, Insightful)
[Why The Fark] would I want a feature that inputs bad data?!!
That performs bad calculations?!!
Shit, just make a tool that generates Lorem Ipsum text across a grid of X by Y cells and be done with it.
Maybe a boost for LibreOffice? (Score:3)
If MS makes this feature (anti-feature?) difficult or impossible to turn off, might it increase LibreOffice adoption?
I suppose it won't have much of an impact, because MS has become quite expert at raising the temperature just slowly enough to stop the frogs from jumping out of the pot. Still, it's nice to think that their push to control their users' experience, and to force them to subscription models with advertising baked in, might someday result in a huge "fuck off" and a mass migration to free-and-open alternatives.
If a computer doesn't have to be consistent ... (Score:1)
If a computer doesn't have to be consistent, it can be anything else.
Bet it won't count low (Score:2)
When they start using it to charge you for Excel by the document, I bet it won't count low.
Call it the (Score:2)
...Darwin Award Function. If you rely on a bot to make key decisions, you deserve whatever mayhem the bot deals you.
= DarwinAwardGPT("Your prompt request")
Annoying. (Score:4, Informative)
This feature is super annoying. I'll be trying to fill in cell by cell and constantly need to recheck every time I hit enter because sometimes it will just make up stuff for the rest of the data and it's hard to notice until it's too late sometimes.