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smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
It obviously added “A+1+2+3” and got 15 after looking up the typical value of A.
Assuming you are right, according to ascii A is 65 so it should be 71…
Im honestly struggling to figure out how it got 15. Yes I know it’s just a fancy text prediction engine. Yes it doesn’t think, it just calculates what is the most likely string to follow the previous one. But seriously 1+2+3 equaling 15 makes no sense… Wait holy shit… I got it
2+3 = 5 1 = 1
Now instead of adding them, imagine they are strings and concatenate them together (str) “1”+(str) “5” = “15”
It didn’t consider any of the numbers, because the user didn’t provide the context argument to the function.
I’m betting the one is formatted as text and the other rows are formatted as a numbers. Can’t confirm as I don’t use excel but that seems to be the issue.
No, it’s a lot more basic than that. You provide =COPILOT() the cells to operate on in the second parameter, and the user didn’t provide it. Copilot cannot see any of the spreadsheet and just reported what a typical answer for a request like that is.
Or A can be 10 in hexadecimal, but that wouldn’t fit either.
Yeah but then in hex it would equal 16, not 15. I’m betting he set the format of the 2 and 3 to number but forgot to set the format of the 1 and it defaulted to text. 2 and 3 got added but adding a string to an integer defaulted to concatenation, since they integrated python within excel and this how it would work in python.
How many gigawatts did it take for you to figure that out?
1.21 jiggawatts!
Great Scott!!
The typical value of A is 9, according to copilot.
Off by 1. Not too bad.
When they called the function, they didn’t specify any cells. The copilot function, like any other Excel function, cannot see cells that aren’t given to it.
The second argument is blank, so it just Gave a typical answer to a sum question.
crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
And it was still wrong