And here you thought automatic date conversion was a problem.
this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2025
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I hate Microsoft and Excel but that date thing is exactly the kind of stuff that AI would be great at.
Just not the kind of AI Microsoft probably plans to put in Excel π€·
Not necessarily. It would do better than current excel, but that's a low bar... but it would also introduce less reliability / more randomness in date conversions, which is not what any business wants.
Most of excels quirks have not been fixed because a ton of business processes have been built upon those quirks. AI can't fix that.
The new excuse: "It's not a bug it's AI"
Gross, this annoying bug I didn't ask for is distracting me, and sucking my blood. Totally not a metaphor...
Not the point of this article but
Meta is shaking up and downsizing its artificial intelligence division
Wasn't it just a month or two ago that Zuc was poaching AI engineers with multi-million dollar sign on bonuses? These boom and bust cycles are happening at breakneck speed. Most efficient system btw
100%. Meta did the same thing with VR back in like 2021 iirc. they'll hire everyone in sight so competitors can't hire them. and then those workers will just sit on their hands playing candy crush all day doing zero work.
random link i found about it https://nypost.com/2023/04/07/workers-at-meta-salesforce-say-they-got-paid-to-do-nothing/
Former employees of tech giants including Meta and Salesforce say they were hired to sit around and essentially do nothing as companies embark on a course-correction and lay off extraneous workers during the current economic downturn.
Levy added: βIt kind of seemed that Meta was hiring people so that other companies couldnβt have us.β
That bit about Bighead in Silicon Valley getting paid to do nothing wasn't made up?
i sort of don't care when the LLM is wrong about things it's not designed for. the functional problem they have is that they're shit at what they are designed to do.
A big part the problem is also how they are marketed... Everyone is pushing AI as though it has the entire wealth of human knowledge inside it, it knows the right answer, and can explain it to you in seconds.
Not, you know, we fed this machine a bunch of words and trained it to spit back out words that look like they fit together.
Lets not lie by omission, they are wildly more expensive while being shit too. π
there are a ton of social, ethical, and environmental problems with them, those problems would exist even if the worked properly. that they don't work properly is the fondant on the shit cake.
Tech stocks tanked Tuesday,
lol... k... still up 0.5% over 1 month, 18% over the past year, and 87% over 5 years.
when it goes down 15-40% lmk.
i think it's fair to say that though when this random normie author (likely an AI bot) is writing about an AI bubble it means it is real and here though.
I thought Intel already managed that with the GPU issues.
Intel did this way before it was cool
Or rather, between two AI winters.
I meant to write FPU. It got auto-mangled and I thought I corrected it; clearly not...
Finally, you say?
To emphasize that bugs in implementations of floating point arithmetic are far from rare, we mention that the Calculator application in Microsoft Windows 3.1 evaluates fl(2.01 - 2.00) = 0.0.
Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes
I've leaked the source code
function wrong_calculator(actual_answer) {
return actual_answer + Math.floor(Math.random() + 0.5);
}