AIs and Excel (2010)

[LucaMs]

Yesterday, since Copilot is incredibly fast and I'm lazy, I asked it for a simple formula for Excel 2010.

Copilot, ChatGPT, and Perplexity generated completely incorrect formulas.

Gemini, in addition to giving me the correct formula, suggested a "manual" method, via menus (a method I'd already used many years ago and hadn't even considered).

I'm writing this to highlight a field where Gemini apparently is better, but as I'm writing, I realized something...

I didn't even spend two seconds thinking of the solution myself, since I have Copilot at my fingertips!
If I had THINKED, at least the manual method would have come to mind. In short, with AI, we risk stopping thinking!

 

[Alessandro71]

with AI, we risk stopping thinking!

that's a "real and present danger" (cit.)
and also accepting every answer from AI as the truth, without even checking.
it's the next step from today's widespread of fake news: people already accept everything that's coming from socials

 

[AnandGupta]

Not only AI. With mobile around, I can not multiply 3 * 17 or add 28 + 7 in my day to day shopping.
Looks like lots of brain cell or effort needed and unnecessary. Out comes mobile.

 

[Jerryk]

I would see it a little differently. Here on the forum I guess we are individuals, enthusiasts. In a large software company, in short, there are architects and coders. We have to do everything. And development takes a long time before we put it in the play store. So why not let AI help you? You always have full control over the code. You will determine what the AI should do and what not. Personally, I don't really enjoy being in the position of a junior coder. For example, I hate Regex squiggles

 

[AnandGupta]

I would see it a little differently. Here on the forum I guess we are individuals, enthusiasts. In a large software company, in short, there are architects and coders. We have to do everything. And development takes a long time before we put it in the play store. So why not let AI help you? You always have full control over the code. You will determine what the AI should do and what not. Personally, I don't really enjoy being in the position of a junior coder. For example, I hate Regex squiggles

The thread is : AI affecting thinking capability in human.

BTW, We all use AI to solve our coding problem and we thank it for the speed and saving our time in searching the net.

 

[67biscuits]

The trick is, turn AI OFF in your browser, and device. Help yourself by doing this, to avoid the slippery slope of laziness and eventually ignorance of basic maths skills, communication and the simple though processes that we currently take for granted.

 

[Alessandro71]

quite out-of-topic for AI app development, but one thing regarding AI that drives me really mad is the emerging trend of using AI generated images for news articles.
i mean online newspaper-alike articles about every "real" subject as crime/meteo/politics with photorealist pictures of fact not as they really happened but as the AI pictured them.
this is borderline between fraud and fake.
they should be legally sanctioned.
photos stick in people mind more that the headline (or the really minuscole text "AI generated content solely for illustration purposes").
if you, journalist, need a picture to underline an article, use the "cartoon" or "sketch" stile, so it's clear that the picture is "solely for illustration purposes".

 

[arzu48]

i think it is one of the biggest risk with AI when you can easily get answer it is easy to stop trying to solve the problem yourself i think that thinking about the problems for a few minutes gives me a better understanding than getting immediate answer from AI