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It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes (defector.com)
submitted 21 hours ago by tux0r@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Money quote:

Excel requires some skill to use (to the point where high-level Excel is a competitive sport), and AI is mostly an exercise in deskilling its users and humanity at large.

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[–] tux0r@feddit.org 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The manual exists though.

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

You know it's easier, efficient and better to have a conversation with an AI rather than read an entire manual that won't contain the thing you need right?

You know, all the things it's advertised to do.

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Only to find the "AI" hallucinating functions that won't work. Or won't do the thing you were told they do.

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Most times it works. When it doesn't, it'll still get me 90% of a solution and I can use the manual or other means to finish it. Again a much faster and better approach. I don't need to spend hours of my time reading manuals that barely touch on the knowledge I need just to bash keys and hope for the best. Plus it's conversational so it engages other parts of the brain as a learning tool.

These fucking people use a rubber duck for the same thing

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

When it doesn’t, it’ll still get me 90% of a solution and I can use the manual or other means to finish it. Again a much faster and better approach.

So you prefer a "90% solution and then read the manual" to "read the manual anyway"?

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yes. Why would I need to read something that is 99% information that is not important to me or my problem.

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Because you'll learn the solution for the other problems you'll have some day on the way.

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

So I'll waste my time when I could instead get right to the heart of my problem. Have a conversation and learn more about that thing I'm implementing vs blindly skimming through manuals that have nothing to do with my problem in hopes that I'll retain that information on 2 years when i come across the other issue. Or I could just chatgpt that problem as well