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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
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Excel Developers & Microsoft Copilot. (i.imgur.com)
submitted 9 months ago by Pro@reddthat.com to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/48301764

The COPILOT function comes with a couple of limitations, as it can't access information outside your spreadsheet, and you can only use it to calculate 100 functions every 10 minutes. Microsoft also warns against using the AI function for numerical calculations or in "high-stakes scenarios" with legal, regulatory, and compliance implications, as COPILOT "can give incorrect responses."

Source: Mastodon.

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[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

The only thing, beyond laughing at it being dumb or making silly pictures that I don't really care about, that I've found as an actual useful use for this wave of AIs is basically "pretend you're an expert in whatever field you're being asked about, and that you're talking to a moderately less experienced professional, and give a very brief description of the topic, focusing on what the user can lookup on their own instead".

As an example, I asked it about designing some gears for a project. It told me I used a word wrong and the more precise term would give me better search results, defined a handful of terms I'd run into, and told me to buy a machinery handbook or get a design table since the parameters are all standardized.

The current approach isn't going to replace thinking for yourself, but pattern recognition can do a good job seeing that questions about X often end up relating to A, B, and C.

Oh, and I also got Google's to only respond as though it's broken and it made it really fun to try to figure out the news through it's cryptic gibberish. A solid hour of amusement, and definitely worth several billion dollars of other people's money.