Microsoft Spends Billions, Creates Calculator That's Sometimes Wrong
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Re: Microsoft Spends Billions, Creates Calculator That's Sometimes Wrong
#2not theonion
Re: Microsoft Spends Billions, Creates Calculator That's Sometimes Wrong
#3Using an over-glorified text autocomplete to invent formulas on Excel - what could go wrong?
Re: Microsoft Spends Billions, Creates Calculator That's Sometimes Wrong
#4This is why I'm skeptical of "AI-powered everything" approaches. Sometimes the simplest solution is the right one. Microsoft has infinite resources and somehow made a calculator unreliable. Meanwhile, the built-in calculator on every OS just works. There's a lesson here about complexity for complexity's sake. Not everything needs machine learning. Sometimes you just need basic math to work correctly 100% of the time.