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I think you didn’t even read the article or read up about this integration.
This isn’t just an LLM, it’s Agentic AI.
AI is a tool that needs to be learned how to be used properly. Anyone can pick it up and get results that are “good enough“, but in the right hands what can be done is incredible - just like with any tool.
Look at something like minecraft as a perfect example of what can be done with a tool in the right hands.
Most people don’t understand “AI” as it is, and mistakenly think it’s just a school assignment cheating tool and a chat bot that makes things up.
People in here have been saying since LLMs can’t do maths perfectly it’s terrible for numbers, but they can’t see that it doesn’t need to do maths here because it’s in excel and excel has formulas and functions that can.
It’s crazy how the mere mention of AI makes some people lose any and all semblance of critical thinking and intelligence.
Ok so your idea of excel is just what your average person might do at home with it - that’s not what or who this stuff is for.
And it will fuck up around half of even the simple formulas. This is really bad, and the idiots in charge should feel bad. Excel basically runs the world and they are about to fuck it up
And people will fuck up those same formulas 30% of the time (vs 45% of agent mode).
AI isn’t being forced into being the only way to do spreadsheets.