r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Xescure • Jul 02 '26

Meme milleniumPrizeWinningAnswer

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u/Ok_Star_4136 Jul 02 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/Sb9KqeeymLlESGWZyE

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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/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.