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 event checking.
if 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.