this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2025
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Should have just remembered the new cover sheet for your TPS reports.
To be fair, MS says you shouldn't use it for caculations.
"Why is it there then?" No clue.
Do you think someone dumb enough to cause problems with this is smart enough to read the warning?
There's different kinds of smartness and dumbness and they are not always toggled on.
The example I saw them use was turning one line text reviews into a simple positive or negative so you can count them.
So it could be useful for things like that, even if we ignore the "then why not just ask for the star rating" that probably went along with that review...
MS is now an AI company that sells to excited bosses who would love to fire somebody somewhere to save a few bucks.
At the same time, that sounds like something you'd just use old-fashioned sentiment analysis for.
It's less accurate, but also far less demanding, and doesn't risk hallucinating.
"... to save a few bucks."
In the short term, people who rushed into AI are finding out that a 1 in 100 error rate is absurdly high when literally every action is done through an LLM.
No third-party research ever arrived at such absurdly low number as 1% error rate.
Internal OpenAi research from May 2025 said 50% error rate and growing.
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Sounds like it's made to replace C-suits
you should use it write a beautiful poem! That's what calculators are for!
That is only there to cover their asses not to actually be informative
> Show your work
Sure! Here are the steps for summing the numbers above:
- Retrieve the numbers: The numbers in cells above are 1, 2 and 3.
- Compute the result: The sum of 1 is 1, the sum of 2 and 3 is 5.
- Write down the result: 15 ✨
Piece of cake! 🍰 Anything else I can help you with?
I don't think that's right.
You are absolutely correct, I see where I made an error by treating 1, 2, and 3 each like different things. The correct answer is 123. I've updated the spreadsheet to reflect this and also cleared out the original data since we have the sum and no longer need it.
Now to send the spreadsheet to India to verify the answer.
Copilot wants your permission to send this file to India.
Reject
Ok, I won't send your copy. But I really want to verify my change, so I've taken the liberty of sending Microsoft's copy. Don't worry, I did see that this is a financial spreadsheet and am submitting your information for credit locks because it's already been sold.
Oops! There was a problem performing that last action! (Blocked. Note: Who the hell taught copilot to do this? This exposes us to fraud lawsuits from those we sold the data to.)
Oops! There was a problem performing the last action! (Blocked. Note: We don't want these notes being sent directly to users.)
Oops! There was a problem performing the last action! (Blocked. Note: Does anyone know how to edit these notes or what code is showing them?? This looks really bad!)
> The result is actually 6.
Oh sorry, you are absolutely right! 😅 I see that 1×2×3 equals 6. I did not realize at first that you wanted me to multiply the numbers.
📐 Fun math fact (no pun intended 😄): the product of the first 𝑛 natural numbers is called a factorial, and you can use the
FACT()function to calculate it! The factorial of 3 is 3! = 1×2×3 =6.
IIRC, you're supposed to also pass a range of cells for the "AI" to work on.
But the fact that it just returned a number rather than "You're using this wrong, dickhead" is a problem in itself.
And if you have to supply the range then it's even less useful than the sum function
the fact that it just returned a number rather than “You’re using this wrong, dickhead” is a problem in itself
Turns out this is exactly the problem with SPSS, which dates to 1968.
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I'm amazed that it can't figure out that it should just defer arithmetic to like, all the functions that Excel already has, rather than trying to LLM its way to the correct answer.
If you could ask it to do something in Excel that you don't know how to do, and it did it using Excel functions and maybe explained it to you, that would be useful, but as it is now, that thing isn't trustworthy at all.
They straight up tell you to not use it for math. It's for analyzing a bunch of text you shoved into a spreadsheet, say for example customer testimonials or something. Making it work most of the time would actually be worse, because then people would be more inclined to use it instead of writing the formulas to do it right.
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I'm so glad my pirated softwares can't update to this shit.
imaging pirating AI - now that's something stupid
Not as stupid as paying for it
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I'm still running office 2007 lol.
Did that version have the "WordArt" clipart text features?
Truly we've made negative progress ever since.
Oh yeah baby. You know it
The previous Non-AI would have written the 4th of January 1900 in that cell.
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Ah yes financial crisis, those one in a lifetime events that only affect poors that are manufactured because it is also a cash injection for the needy rich slop
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Well it seems it kind of already have happen. The austerity in the European Union have been justified by an excel error. Of course, the lack of control of conclusion that please the bourgeoisie is not a coincidence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItGMz0ERvcw
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