Skepticism Surrounding AI in Excel

In episode 65 of The AI Fix, a pigeon gives a PowerPoint presentation, Mark plays Graham a song about the Transformer architecture, a robot dog delivers parcels, some robots fall over at the World Humanoid Robot Games, and Graham takes credit for one of computing’s greatest insights.

Plus, Graham explains why Microsoft doesn’t want you to use Excel’s new Copilot feature in any spreadsheet calculations that are meant to be useful, accurate, reproducible, or relied on for anything important, and Mark discovers what happened when researchers gave 500 AIs their own social network.

Episode links:

• Bursting the Cloud.
• Don’t call it ‘the cloud’. Call it ‘someone else’s computer’.
• Ethan Mollick’s version of Attention Is All You Need.
• World Humanoid Robot Games opening ceremony.
• Robotics Relay Race Turns into an Unexpected Comedy.
• AI has created a new breed of cat video.
• He lost everything… but built a life more than he ever dreamed.
• Evri deploys first robot delivery dogs.
• How a Misplaced Decimal Point Nearly Took Down Spain’s Newest Submarines.
• Bring AI to your formulas with the COPILOT function in Excel.
• COPILOT Function.
• Can We Fix Social Media?

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