My guess: there’s a lot of text examples in its training data summing 1+2+3+4+5=15. So the 1+2+3 pattern made the stochastic parrot go “ah, I recognize this! Here’s the answer to 1+2+3+4+5”.
The only way my brain says it works is 1 + 2 is 12 and then add three. So like one and two are strings and then you try to add a number to it so it converts it all the numbers
It was thinking that 15 is the most common answer on the Internet to the request “sum the numbers above”.
The COPILOT() feature does not have access to your spreadsheet. You pass it the cell range it is supposed to use for context in the optional second parameter. The user did not provide any second parameter, so they’re just asking it to generate some text based on the text of the prompt and nothing else.
The person who made this tweet either didn’t bother reading how to use the feature, or is being disingenuous.
Trying to figure out what it was “thinking” here…
2+3=5 and… um… ‘carry the 1’? “15!” Genius!
as others are said, this screenshot could be carefully staged
you could be seeing
but with the preceeding “1” trimmed off and the remaining +9 in the cells above A11, where they have aligned the window so you can’t see the 10th row.
My guess: there’s a lot of text examples in its training data summing 1+2+3+4+5=15. So the 1+2+3 pattern made the stochastic parrot go “ah, I recognize this! Here’s the answer to 1+2+3+4+5”.
The only way my brain says it works is 1 + 2 is 12 and then add three. So like one and two are strings and then you try to add a number to it so it converts it all the numbers
My brain tells me that in Excel, nothing is a string, they are all dates.
It was thinking that 15 is the most common answer on the Internet to the request “sum the numbers above”.
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COPILOT()feature does not have access to your spreadsheet. You pass it the cell range it is supposed to use for context in the optional second parameter. The user did not provide any second parameter, so they’re just asking it to generate some text based on the text of the prompt and nothing else.The person who made this tweet either didn’t bother reading how to use the feature, or is being disingenuous.