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Excel Developers & Microsoft Copilot. (i.imgur.com)
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cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/48301764

The COPILOT function comes with a couple of limitations, as it can't access information outside your spreadsheet, and you can only use it to calculate 100 functions every 10 minutes. Microsoft also warns against using the AI function for numerical calculations or in "high-stakes scenarios" with legal, regulatory, and compliance implications, as COPILOT "can give incorrect responses."

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[–] vivendi@programming.dev 4 points 4 days ago

That is different. It's because you're interacting with token-based models. There has been new research on giving byte level data to LLMs to solve this issue.

The numerical calculation aspect of LLMs and this are different.

It would be best to couple an LLM into a tool-calling system for rudimentary numeral calculations. Right now the only way to do that is to cook up a Python script with HF transformers and a finetuned model, I am not aware of any commercial model doing this. (And this is not what Microshit is doing)