I've tried the google sheets 'gemini' integration. And it is honestly not usable at all. It hallucinates much more than if I just download the data as CSV, upload to the actual gemini, and then ask the question.

It was so (comically) bad that I ended up sharing a lot of screenshots on my process trying to make it work with my team just for entertainment value lol.

One time I asked it to do a diff between "col A" and "col B" and it started telling me it was a "goddess of light" blabla. I'm assuming because the random values in col A and col B completely polluted it's context window so it spewed nonsense back.

EDIT: I know the article is about the MSFT counterpart products. I've not used those with Copilot so can't speak to their quality.

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charlieyu1 a day ago | parent | next [-]

I got an email from a client about a meeting at 2PM on Gmail. Their AI automatically added an 2AM slot to my calendar and it cannot even be removed

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falcor84 a day ago | parent [-]

Going on a tangent from a tangent, I think that the 2*12h clock is a horrible idea that should have been rejected from the start, and the Product Manager who proposed it 3 thousand years ago should have been immediately put into the dungeons and fed only once a day at 12PM. Anyway, now we know better and there's no good excuse not to use a 24h clock as the default across all systems.

	▲	brewdad 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		As usual the problem is Americans. We won't learn metric and refuse to use the 24 hour clock. It removes ambiguity and solves so many issues but since it would require people to stop and think what 1600 means for the first few months it will never happen here.

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layman51 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Do you have any other small examples of stuff I could try out to test-drive the Gemini integration for Google Sheets? My colleague tried it out to get it to make a chart, but it ended up failing at the task. It was hard for me to evaluate it though because it seems like when you use Gemini inside of Sheets, there's no way to share the conversation. That's horrifying, especially if it is responding back with delusions of grandeur.

	▲	Insanity a day ago \| parent [-]
		I didn't really have any success with it. It just failed in different ways, usually small issues (like it only has context on the current sheet, so working with multiple sheets is an instance no-no). But the goddess hallucination was the wildest and funniest one.

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bitwize a day ago | parent | prev [-]

> it started telling me it was a "goddess of light" blabla

The dimensional merge is real! Did it also start talking about how it's a Hyperdimension Neptunia CPU?

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Insanity a day ago | parent [-]

I feel like I'm missing a reference haha :D

	▲	LtdJorge 9 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's better if you do
	▲	bitwize a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's a reference to Chris-Chan lore which, to be fair, has become incomprehensibly deep.