• gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    17 天前

    Mildly approaching an actually useful AI in the stupidest way possible.

    I don’t need an AI shortcut in Excel that is just a chatbot. If it could actually perform complex redundant tasks, then it would be useful.

    “Copilot, please create 3 charts of the most important data and create a Powerpoint with animations to present it.”

    Until it can do things like that, it’s useless to me.

    Honest question: what do people actually use this for?

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      17 天前

      It’s called recall or something. If you are trying to find something you saw before but can’t remember, it remembers for you.

      Copilot, what was the video on Pornhub I saw a few months ago, with the brunette who looks like Jessica from accounting? And she had like 4 guys in her at once and was eating spaghetti?

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      17 天前

      I’ve found it useful in providing scripts for me that I can use as templates. You still have to fix a lot of stuff as it makes crazy assumptions and hallucinates a lot but it’s useful.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      17 天前

      Honest question: what do people actually use this for?

      My wife is on a course to learn (just enough) excel fancy tricks to do her job better. We all hate it. There was a formula misbehaving, and I described the error to a ChatGPT window. The window returned some recommendations to look at, and one of them was correct.

      I use it to write ansible for me, since I never want to get good at it and I never want to do it beyond paid work. I would take up a serious pot habit if I could be assured of destroying only the brain cells that record my memory of doing ansible. I write my config management with tools that are decades more advanced, and those I want to learn and retain.