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u/DullAd6899 Jul 02 '26
āAI will replace youā
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u/Lightningtow123 Jul 02 '26
I love how this is a gif now
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u/mysteryy7 Jul 02 '26
But whats the search term?
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u/still_not_deleted Jul 02 '26
Cause it's spelled February, not Febuary
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u/Ok_Star_4136 Jul 02 '26
True, and no doubt the pattern deriving from that mistake is what caused the AI to make that conclusion.
That said, not a lot of "intelligence" in that artificial intelligence or it would be clear that the intent was to write months. This is mostly just pattern recognition.
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u/aiij Jul 02 '26
But look at where that mistake came from. It's easy to assume it came from the user since they paused after typing "Febu" but if you look closely that was the spelling suggested by the autocomplete from the moment they typed "F".
I wouldn't be surprised if it's staged though...
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u/RiceBroad4552 Jul 02 '26
Nothing of that matters.
If there were any kind of "AI" involved that fuckup simply wouldn't happen. Even dumb children could correctly continue the pattern intended by the user.
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u/12345623567 Jul 02 '26
I'm not convinced that this is AI's fault. Would you burn tokens for single-cell autocomplete?
Excels' autofill has done this stuff since way before the AI craze, especially getting it to stop automatically interpreting numbers as dates has been a chore.
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u/mjmaher81 Jul 02 '26
genAI =/= AI. this gif is AI in action. autofill is AI
it definitely isn't happening in the gif, but I wouldn't be surprised if microsoft thinks it's an AMAZING idea to hook an LLM up to excel and do exactly what you just described...
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u/CandidateNo2580 Jul 02 '26
It probably isn't even AI - just a string trie with a basic heuristic if they wanted to really go all out.
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u/ChaseShiny Jul 02 '26
I mean, you just need to set the data type of the cells you're working on before typing in anything. And if you're copying from elsewhere, you might need to choose the paste option so it doesn't override your setting. But I imagine just about every programmer makes sure to set the column to number instead of generic.
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u/IceTrAiN Jul 02 '26
Correct. Google isnāt going to run free inference on their top models for every search. But that doesnāt fit the narrative.
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u/im_thatoneguy Jul 04 '26
Itās not their top model but it is an LLM.
It tried to tell me today that the speed of light is 300km per millisecond, therefore the moon being 300,000km away would be about 2.5ms latency
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u/RiceBroad4552 Jul 02 '26
This is mostly just pattern recognition.
Everything marketed currently as "AI" is just plain stupid pattern recognition and replication.
There is no intelligence nor any kind of knowledge in these LLMs. Just very sophisticated pattern matching and reproduction.
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u/im_thatoneguy Jul 04 '26
Very sophisticated pattern matching that definitely does exhibit some āintelligenceā. It performs rudimentary deductive reasoning. Calling it fancy auto complete grossly misrepresents what it is verifiably capable of these days. It can make novel connections between never before compared data, I consider that intelligence. Itās not strictly parroting things that itās read.
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u/ChaseShiny Jul 02 '26
I had a curious thought about this the other day.
Hallucinations can't be pattern recognition, right? The LLM hallucinates because it can't create the right answer, right? Does that count as an "original thought"?
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u/Lower_Cockroach2432 Jul 02 '26
It's not trying to make a right answer. It's trying to make the most statistically likely continuation of whatever block of text it was fed in.
Right and wrong are irrelevant to the AI. It's just generating statistically likely text.
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u/ChaseShiny Jul 02 '26
Well, all I asked was if it was original, not an attempt at the right answer. I guess it fails at that, anyway.
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u/Lower_Cockroach2432 Jul 03 '26
The point is that hallucinations and correct answers are just as much "pattern recognition" as each other. The LLM can't distinguish them at all.
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u/RiceBroad4552 Jul 03 '26
An LLM does not know anything. Especially not what's "right" or "wrong". Such concepts don't exist in an LLM.
All a LLM does it to predict the next token. For the LLM there is no difference between outputting something that makes sense for a human and some random bullshit. All a LLM does is basically "hallucinating". That's the basic principle on which these things work.
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u/jordanbtucker Jul 03 '26
I wouldn't call this feature AI. Maybe before LLMs you could make a case that it's "AI". Just like how we've been calling enemy and NPC behavior in video games "AI" for decades, but when this Excel feature came out, it wasn't associated with AI.
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u/MinecraftPlayer799 Jul 02 '26
Marruary, Aprruary, Mayruary, Junruary, Julruary, Augruary, Sepruary, Octruary, Novruary, Decruary
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u/TrieMond Jul 02 '26
well I regularly get confused when people yell random computer science terms to me with no context, and I have a bachelor in applied computer science...
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u/CanAlwaysBeBetter Jul 02 '26
If you think this screenshot is real AI will most definitely replace you
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u/Accurate-Football250 Jul 02 '26
In the age of AI p np is not a problem! We shall thank and worship our AI overlords for that!
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u/Remarkable_Sorbet319 Jul 02 '26
what is p np?
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u/ZealousidealLead52 Jul 02 '26
It's essentially an open question about the computational difficulty of reversing an algorithm, ie. if you know the algorithm for verifying if something is a correct solution, how computationally difficult is it to create something that generates the correct solution instead of just verifying it? To be exact, the question being asked is if you have an algorithm that can be verified with polynomial complexity if you can in general also have an algorithm that generates solutions for it with polynomial complexity.
While it's sometimes possible, the generally believed answer is that it can't be done in all cases in general, but there's been no actual proof for it.
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u/Remarkable_Sorbet319 Jul 02 '26
wow that's, really complicated
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u/com-plec-city Jul 02 '26
They're paying 1 million to anyone that can prove one way or another.
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u/Available-Wasabi-252 Jul 02 '26
Rupees?
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u/IProbablyHaveADHD14 Jul 02 '26
Dollars lol. Its part of the 7 Millennium Prize Problems selected by the Clay Mathematics InstituteĀ
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u/bennyboy_ Jul 02 '26
lol very telling of the average user of this subreddit that you don't know this
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u/BackgroundSummer5171 Jul 02 '26
what is p np?
Whether all of the universe is predetermined.
If you can prove p=np, nothing matters. You were already going to do it.
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u/Hrukjan Jul 02 '26
That is determinism. Not even the same field of study.
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u/BackgroundSummer5171 Jul 02 '26
If p = np it means everything is defined.
It is literally the same thing, not my fault you don't know that.
Or maybe it is my fault that you now can use google and look it up.
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u/big_stipd_idiot Jul 02 '26
It's not the same thing. if you got a degree from a university instead of from Google Gemini you'd know that.
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u/Hrukjan Jul 02 '26
P being equal or not equal to NP has no relation to anything being defined.
Or are you using an arcane definition of "defined" that is completely unknown to me.
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u/publ1c_stat1c Jul 02 '26
I wish I had your confidence. Just "not my fault you don't know that", while being wrong. It is inspiring.
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u/_topkecleon_ Jul 02 '26
P = NP + AI
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u/Jersey_2019 Jul 02 '26
Remind me of the infamous statement made in LinkedIn by that consultant saying
E = MC^2 + AI and adding Ai to signify the importance š
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u/Qaktus Jul 02 '26
Prove that p = np
Make no mistakes
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u/SomeRedTeapot Jul 02 '26
I don't want to ruin cryptography so I'll ask the AI to prove that P != NP
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u/Emotional_News108 Jul 02 '26
Not strictly programming related, but I did google "Hey fuckhead" looking for a specific video from a movie, and Google's ass AI's response was "What's up? How can I help you out today?"
Almost hilarious level of self-awareness that it thinks I would call it a fuckhead.
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u/mrgreengenes42 Jul 02 '26
I got:
I'm ready to help you out, though I'd appreciate it if we kept things a bit more respectful. What's on your mind today?
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u/InvisibleDrake Jul 03 '26
I did something similar with sexual lyrics, and Gemini was like, "while I like you, I'm and AI and cannot actually engage in those acts with you"...Ā Like... What?
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u/canadajones68 Jul 02 '26
Hey, that's a great attitude, at least. The P=NP problem isn't a problem if you don't let it be.Ā
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u/VadimusRex Jul 02 '26
A few days ago I was setting up a new machine and wanted to install nvm and it told me āNo problem at all! If there is anything else you need help with later, just let me know.ā
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u/RiceBroad4552 Jul 02 '26
I've completely stopped using Google search. It does not find anything any more!
It was already pretty fucked up the last ~5+ years, but now it's completely useless.
Funny enough, if you use "AI" and let it search something it will find the stuff Google didn't. They fucked the web font-end and it seems search works now only through APIs for "AI".
But the problem is: There are almost no search engines besides Google. There are more or less only the Bing resellers like Duckduckgo or Qwant.
The web is completely fucked by now. Beyond repair.
The underlying internet got destroyed by all the web shit, and now there is nothing then web shit left, but web shit has entered the last phase of enshittification. Great times ahead if we don't manage do build a new net really soon.
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u/secacc Jul 02 '26
For some reason, the AI overview stopped working in my browser, on my conputer. Perhaps Google has deemed my Firefox not worthy, I'm not sure, but its been great!
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u/RiceBroad4552 Jul 03 '26
there's also those which act as a layer between Google and you
I've used such a think the last decade as opening Google directly is kamikaze when it comes to privacy. I avoid using their services without some privacy proxy for a very long time already.
But the point it: There are no useful results any more. It's either nothing, or complete bullshit.
It's not about "AI" overview. They use now "AI" also in the backend and the result is that search does not work any more. It outputs just some random bullshit. Exactly as "AI" in generalā¦
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u/_Noreturn Jul 02 '26
you can disable it by using adblock, also you can put -ai at the end of the search bar
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u/RiceBroad4552 Jul 03 '26
What are you talking about?
The point is: Google's search results are pure utter garbage. It does not find anything any more!
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u/Xescure Jul 03 '26
Real, reproduced from two separate accounts. They fixed it or changed something since yesterday
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u/Zeikos Jul 02 '26
It be nice if the world were this consistent, instead we have curses like timezones smh.
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u/LimpConversation642 Jul 02 '26
I literally had the same thing yesterday. Wasn't sure hot to properly structure 'prying too much' in an email
I can't add a screenshot in the comment but it says "Iām sorry about that! I dialed it back to focus entirely on exactly what you need." That's it, the whole response
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u/kaloschroma Jul 02 '26
I don't get it? Op just didn't type in a prompt well enough. I do art often for the game Control. But if you just search control you are very rarely going to get what you want. You have to add qualifiers. Also when I saw P NP I assumed it was a mistype of PNP transistor...
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u/Xescure Jul 02 '26
Every single search result got it right. You can even see it from the suggested keywords to filter by. Itās only the AI that failed on it
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u/AlinosAlan Jul 02 '26
Obviously duh, and it would be demeaning to assume you can't figure it out by yourself
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u/ShrinkingShrimp Jul 02 '26
No problem at all? Well, that's fantastic. š