@eb It's always so baffling to me that people made computers do extremely complicated math and logic to give wrong results in simple arithmetic. And they sell that as a product that's supposed to be a great technological leap forward

@Kiloku @eb If you use a hammer to eat soup you generally don't end up with good results.
If you want to sum numbers use the sum function, not one that predicts the next most probable token. I dislike this type of bashing of LLMs because it's trivial to dismiss (ok they can't do trivial maths, but they can write an entire piece of software for me). There are much more risky outputs that could be used as an example. Funky Excel formulas have always existed...

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They are writing complete software for you in the same way they sum numbers. Only that you are able to easily spot that the summation gives the wrong result.

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What really baffles me, though, is that apparently MS lets Copilot "calculate" stuff instead of simply generate the Excel formula which is needed here.
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@reinouts @knud @Kiloku @eb Probably because it's not an Excel fine-tuned model but a big 'generalistic' one? I guess using 'write a formula that sums the numbers above ' would work? Much longer than writing it yourself but...

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