SpreadsheetLLM – Microsoft's new AI system

Re:SpreadsheetLLM – Microsoft's new AI system by delusional on Thursday July 18, 2024 @04:14PM (#40999291)

I don't think I understand that demo. It shows him using some built-in workflow thing (which isn't generally considered a core part of a spreadsheet) and then asks some LLM about the total price (I guess asking it to do math, which LLM's are notoriously bad at), but instead it looks like he gets some responses telling him what the term "total price" means, in prose that doesn't fit in the cells.

What was i supposed to take away from that demo?

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Re:SpreadsheetLLM – Microsoft's new AI system by jemmyw on Thursday July 18, 2024 @05:14PM (#40999813)

The llm doesn't do the math. It outputs something the app then interrupted into a cell configuration with sums filled in. This is an area where llms can be quite good, you type out how you want to report the data like "give me subtotals of column F at every month of the date column E and a grand total of F at the bottom"

Except sometimes you can't seem to stop the prose.

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