I disagree in that it’d be useful to find stuff in a limited set or automate some repetitive tasks. You can probably finagle some combination of a chatbot and a limited set of scripts into automating some common but complex tasks or at least helping you find out where the tools are or what they do.
That’s not how AI companions on spreadsheet software seem to work, though. They seem to have just plugged in the chatbot to the raw, unfiltered set of data and functionality, told the LLM to do its best to do what it’s told and called it a day. This goes for both MS and Google, for the record.
It’s pretty useless that way. I don’t know who convinced devs that the way to implement this was to go maximal and live with the failure rate instead of going narrow and keeping things under control, but it was a mistake.
I disagree in that it’d be useful to find stuff in a limited set or automate some repetitive tasks. You can probably finagle some combination of a chatbot and a limited set of scripts into automating some common but complex tasks or at least helping you find out where the tools are or what they do.
That’s not how AI companions on spreadsheet software seem to work, though. They seem to have just plugged in the chatbot to the raw, unfiltered set of data and functionality, told the LLM to do its best to do what it’s told and called it a day. This goes for both MS and Google, for the record.
It’s pretty useless that way. I don’t know who convinced devs that the way to implement this was to go maximal and live with the failure rate instead of going narrow and keeping things under control, but it was a mistake.