Post #3062624
2025-10-06 20:42 UTC
@knud@mastodon.social
What really baffles me, though, is that apparently MS lets Copilot "calculate" stuff instead of simply generate the Excel formula which is needed here.
@nicolaromano@qoto.org @Kiloku@burnthis.town @eb@social.coop
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@logorok@procial.tchncs.de 2025-10-07 04:40
@reinouts@mastodon.green @knud@mastodon.social @nicolaromano@qoto.org @Kiloku@burnthis.town @eb@social.coop why does this baffle you? An llm doesn’t know what a sum is.
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@knud@mastodon.social 2025-10-07 05:43
@reinouts@mastodon.green @nicolaromano@qoto.org @Kiloku@burnthis.town @eb@social.coop The explanation for the bafflement is: there is no revenue in LLMs, but there's an outrageous bubble of investment, particularly also by Microsoft. So LLMs get crammed into any product, useful or not, in order to eventually upsell you. Instead you get an LLM that tries to guess relations in a table - and indeed one can be happy that the answer isn't "Wednesday". But that doesn't make it useful.