As far as I can tell, it’s for people who already use excel wrong. The examples I’ve seen involve using it to process text in natural language (duh, that’s what LLMs are best at). I could see using it to turn aggregated numbers (calculated using deterministic algebra, not Copilot) into a presentation, if you assemble the facts it’s supposed to use, but at that point I’d just as quickly slap them into our corporate template and not worry about tweaking a prompt to spare me from having to actually exercise any non-technical skills.
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.
I used to work for Comcast as a mobile app developer. We used to get uncountable numbers of reviews along the lines of “I gave this app one star because you can’t give an app zero stars”. Honestly depressing even though I wasn’t personally responsible for the apps or the company.
To be fair, MS says you shouldn’t use it for caculations.
“Why is it there then?” No clue.
As far as I can tell, it’s for people who already use excel wrong. The examples I’ve seen involve using it to process text in natural language (duh, that’s what LLMs are best at). I could see using it to turn aggregated numbers (calculated using deterministic algebra, not Copilot) into a presentation, if you assemble the facts it’s supposed to use, but at that point I’d just as quickly slap them into our corporate template and not worry about tweaking a prompt to spare me from having to actually exercise any non-technical skills.
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.
I used to work for Comcast as a mobile app developer. We used to get uncountable numbers of reviews along the lines of “I gave this app one star because you can’t give an app zero stars”. Honestly depressing even though I wasn’t personally responsible for the apps or the company.