Enlarge / A pit stop during the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix in early March evokes how the team’s manager was feeling when looking at the Excel sheet that managed the car’s build components. ALI HAIDER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images reader comments 99 There’s a new boss at a storied 47-year-old Formula 1 team, and he’s… Read More: Formula 1 chief appalled to find team using Excel to… »
Getty Images reader comments 20 It seems like AI large language models (LLMs) are everywhere these days due to the rise of ChatGPT. Now, a software developer named Ishan Anand has managed to cram a precursor to ChatGPT called GPT-2—originally released in 2019 after some trepidation from OpenAI—into a working Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. It’s freely… Read More: Once “too scary” to release, GPT-2 gets squeezed into an… »
Enlarge / If this kind of thing raises your eyebrows, there’s a whole lot more inside a ribbon bar for you. reader comments 71 with If you’re decent in Python (or aspire to be) but don’t have the chops for advanced data work in Excel, Microsoft now offers the kind of peanut butter-and-chocolate combination that… Read More: Excel gets containerized, cloud-based Python analytics and visualization powers »
Enlarge / Still from a demo video showing ACT-1 performing a search on Redfin.com in a browser when asked to “find me a house.” reader comments 45 with 32 posters participating, including story author Share this story Yesterday, California-based AI firm Adept announced Action Transformer (ACT-1), an AI model that can perform actions in software… Read More: New AI assistant can browse, search, and use web apps… »
Enlarge / Ladies and gentlemen, let’s get ready to modelllllllll! (credit: FMWC) If you watched ESPN2 during its stint last weekend as “ESPN8: The Ocho,” you may have seen some odd, meme-friendly competitions, including corgi racing, precision paper airplane tossing, and slippery stair climbing. Or you might have seen “Excel Esports: All-Star Battle,” a tournament in… Read More: Excel esports on ESPN show world the pain of format… »