Short excerpt of a YouTube video conversation (speakers: Paul Barnhurst and another interlocutor) reflecting mixed impressions of an AI system that translates English prompts into formulas: praise for the system’s ability to parse prompts and generate formulas, coupled with criticism that it hard-coded data and produced inaccuracies. The speakers characterize the system as impressive yet imperfect.
I never want to lose sight of the fact that it's impressive that it can do anything, that you can enter an English language prompt and get an answer, and it knows how to read it, interpret the data, find where it needs to go, and populate some sort of a formula. I mean, that's still mind boggling. Yeah, I don't love that it hard coded data. It seems to have gotten a bunch of things wrong from what you are telling me, right from looking at your answer. Q, what do you think?
Yeah, that's kind of my view as well.
As mixed.
It didn't seem to perform quite as well in giving the answers. The one area I was impressed on, the answers it did give that were formulas. All of them were simple. If part of that is how the AI is thinking about the spreadsheet, that could be why.
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