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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.
They probably view that as a statistic worth bragging about. It’s not. If Excel got calculations right 57.2% of the time it would be completely worthless.
I asked copilot to look through my every spreadsheet and find how many instances of a category occurred. I was curious to see if it was any good. Gave me 2 different numbers. Neither were correct.
Copilot: Putting the “Artificial” in Artificial Intelligence.
Fartificial Intelligence
The tech behind LLMs could have just been Clippy and everyone would be happy.
So it achieved the actual proficiency of a middle manager…
Decades ago. The company that replaced it’s CEO with a LLM thrives.
Just keep regenerating data until it’s something the stock holders like. Doesn’t matter if it’s BS. They’re already accustomed to that.
Nice. Basically a coin flip
Slightly better than Vegas. Unfortunately, plenty of people are okay with Vegas odds.
Not enough accuracy to be useful. Not enough bullshit for politics.
Oh it’s going to do it for Word too?
Prompt: Termination letter telling my boss and bosses to kindly go fuck themselves and make it professional
The best you can do in any job is to care as little about them as they care about you.
They will barely read it, and they won’t care nearly as much as you do.
I resign my position as a [position], effective [DATE].
The best cancers of both worlds.
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?
Not related but does global south refer to south of the equator or just everything south of north America?
I don’t know if it is a perfect term, but it doesn’t literally refer to any specific “South”, rather I think it is a reference to the coincidence that many of the heavily industrialized empires of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries have been in the northern hemisphere, and the general colonial power dynamic therein set up has lead to the term “Global South” meaning pretty much anywhere that has gotten the short end of the colonialism stick, vs the long end.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_North_and_Global_South
They’re out smarting the sheet that’s for sure.
