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Microsoft says its Agent Mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in SpreadsheetBench

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[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You also gotta imagine that they tailored the implementation to succeed in known benchmarks and they still got 57%

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Evidently, the benchmarking is based on a set of 912 user questions covering a range of scenarios. I have to assume that a decent chunk of these are covering situations where the original spreadsheet was set up poorly or excel isn't the ideal platform for the desired output. Given that, I wonder if the accuracy metrics even mean anything or if it's just a measurement of how well the software pounds square pegs into round holes.