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We can finally parse English with regex?
Now that would be the day!
I paid real money for a wall calendar that had the months of Feburary and Ooctober.
Wake me up when Sepuary ends
Autocomplete suggestion getting "February" wrong is a nice touch
But Apruary is fine
Whentember juneteenth
Nah, user wrote February wrong, leading to the wrong extrapolation. The program did good.
I think it was taking the letters in column A and adding "uary" afterwards. Jan-uary was correct, so Feb-uary, etc.
"Sepuary"
It's Septuary! You uncultured swine!
Also, “Febuary“
"Do you remuary... --the 21st night of Sepuary?"
Remember, remember!
The fifth of novuary
The gunpowder treason and plot
I think this is the only time excel hasn't decided something was a date.
Rimworld months
Is there a reason I’m seeing someone mention Rimworld in multiple unrelated posts?
Idk, there was an expansion released like a month back so it’s probably experiencing a spike in popularity.
Also if you don’t know I’m alluding to the fake season names it uses which are portmanteaus of real month names. Decebuary, Aprimay etc
It at least could have put SEPTember at month 7, OCTOber at month 8, etc. whilst it was fixing things.
This also highlights the problem of extrapolating from a single data point.
OK, but I like this better.
I'm not defending AI, but I've seen Excel manage worse on its own. Granted, it's almost always my fault for not fully understanding the enigmatic systems that power its logic.
It's amazing what you can do with Excel if you know how. It makes it so easy to analyze complex data sets, accidentally summon the Dark Lord, create pivot tables and graphs, etc.
accidentally summon the Dark Lord
You've tried to use Excel as a database too, huh?
Uh huh. Interesting
(furious scribbling in the scifi worldbuilding notes) "In 2050, the names of the months got inadvertently legally changed when a megacorporation released a new version of their office suite and silently corrupted thousands of government document drafts."
See the top comment. This is from 5 years ago not actually copilot.
When I was taking my introductory courses in computer science over 20 years ago, they told me to not use Excel if you can avoid it, because it's not very, you know, precise. So I'm well aware that this is an ancient joke. Excel will fuck your data up - AI is just another way to do it.
But it is a potential scifi plot point.
However, I will concede that it's probably not a scifi plot point for too long. Worse things have already happened.
What is one meant to use?
For data gathering? Pretty much anything that doesn't fiddle with the values. Usually, bespoke apps or applications specifically designed for survey data. People actually use spreadsheet programs a lot, but those who do spend a lot of time on ensuring data gets entered correctly.
Any suggestions that are easy to use for casuals?
I can't believe this is real
Aren't you cool tho? Because all the cool kids spend every day shitting on AI
Appears to be fixing the English language. Appears to be working just like the autopilot appeared to be working on Tesla cars.
I think Mayuary is my favorite, it's not often I find an arrangement of letters that look that wrong
I think we're fine for a few years longer, fellow humans.
Oldy but a goody and not ai related.
And after this people don't believe me that we had AI all along 🫡
It's kind of funny... everyone using AI right now are just beta testers who aren't getting paid to beta test said AI. Better yet, many people are actually paying subscriptions to be beta testers of said AI. Kind of like buying name brand clothes with their logo on the front and or back.. you're just advertising and not getting paid for it. A bunch of walking billboards lol.
Have you missed the top comment? This isn't actually copilot. It's from 5 years ago. In other words fake news.
Is this real? Literally never seen anything this bad myself. Granted I don't use Excel or many other ms products. GitHub copilot would literally never be this bad though
It's not. It's an old picture with a new caption.
Artificial intelligence is so unintelligent.
Yeah, it can't even spell "Septuary" correctly.
That's just cause AI can't make it's mouth into the shape of an O while it says "Feb-ROO-ary.