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Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it (www.pcgamer.com)
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Workers should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it's a "cognitive amplifier," claims Satya Nadella.

in other words please help us, use our AI

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[–] 4 points 7 months ago* (5 children)

It's just a generic table / matrix thing mostly. Turns out tables are a good way to lay out a bunch of different information.

Somehow nobody has made a similar generic application to allow you to work with nested list, outline, or tree style structures, which I think are equally if not more useful structures to lay out certain types of information.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Tables isn't what make Excel or it's alternatives excel at tasks. If that's all it were, it'd be easily replaced. The formulas and all the other features that help you format, arrange and represent that data is what really makes it good.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    It's not 100% of it, but it's a large portion.

    Excel isn't replaced because your company already bought it. There are many alternatives to Excel and most of them are acceptable to the overwhelming majority of people who use Excel (people using it for tables and basic graphs) and none of them have displaced Excel.

    I mean look at Word. It absolutely sucks and yet it's standard anyway. Same with Outlook.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (1 child)

    Hence why I mentioned Excel or it's alternatives. I was responding to you referring to spreadsheet software as a simple table/matrix.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago*

    I wasn't saying that's all it is. I was and am saying that that's why and how a large portion of people use it.

    There is a lot of usefulness in simple data structures with a GUI over top. That's why the data structures were invented in the first place. People--especially in software product management--are insistent that the complicated features are what keep people using software, even when it's obviously untrue.

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