It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes | Defector
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It’s not AI winter just yet, though there is a distinct chill in the air. Meta is shaking up and downsizing its artificial intelligence division. A new report out of MIT finds that 95 percent of companies’ generative AI programs have failed to earn any profit whatsoever. Tech stocks tanked Tuesday, regarding broader fears that […]

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Excel requires some skill to use (to the point where high-level Excel is a competitive sport), and AI is mostly an exercise in deskilling its users and humanity at large.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    14 hours ago

    Wrong, they already had that with Excel. There were a bunch of functions that delivered wrong returns for years, and none of the users (mostly economists) had noticed.

    • stringere@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      45 minutes ago

      What, you don’t always work with 16 digit numbers that are automatically truncated? What could go wrong? We don’t use 16 digit numbers for anything, really./

      It’s hard to believe that’s still a thing but it is!