It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes | Defector
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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.

  • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    7 hours ago

    Most times it works. When it doesn’t, it’ll still get me 90% of a solution and I can use the manual or other means to finish it. Again a much faster and better approach. I don’t need to spend hours of my time reading manuals that barely touch on the knowledge I need just to bash keys and hope for the best. Plus it’s conversational so it engages other parts of the brain as a learning tool.

    These fucking people use a rubber duck for the same thing

    • rhabarba@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      3·
      6 hours ago

      When it doesn’t, it’ll still get me 90% of a solution and I can use the manual or other means to finish it. Again a much faster and better approach.

      So you prefer a “90% solution and then read the manual” to “read the manual anyway”?

      • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        4 hours ago

        Yes. Why would I need to read something that is 99% information that is not important to me or my problem.

        • rhabarba@feddit.orgOPEnglish
          2·
          4 hours ago

          Because you’ll learn the solution for the other problems you’ll have some day on the way.

          • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            3 hours ago

            So I’ll waste my time when I could instead get right to the heart of my problem. Have a conversation and learn more about that thing I’m implementing vs blindly skimming through manuals that have nothing to do with my problem in hopes that I’ll retain that information on 2 years when i come across the other issue. Or I could just chatgpt that problem as well