Re:Story of the Flash Fill Feature in Excel
by TuringTest on Monday September 20, 2021 @07:47AM
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Glad to hear that! Yes, I agree with having good defaults and orienting the program toward finding them first; I understood that this part from the article referred to this.
The thing is I'm a firm believer in putting the user at the centre of decision-making in automated processes, especially in AI tools that combine multiple sources of data without a clear of model of how they arrive to their solutions.
Too often these process provide their result as a foregone conclusion, and leave the user helpless if it is not the right one. By providing hints on how the process has arrived at that outcome, the user can form a mental model of how it works and learn how to use it more efficiently, or for which situations it is not suitable.
The thing is I'm a firm believer in putting the user at the centre of decision-making in automated processes, especially in AI tools that combine multiple sources of data without a clear of model of how they arrive to their solutions.
Too often these process provide their result as a foregone conclusion, and leave the user helpless if it is not the right one. By providing hints on how the process has arrived at that outcome, the user can form a mental model of how it works and learn how to use it more efficiently, or for which situations it is not suitable.