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•6 days 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•5 days 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!