I lose all respect for a poster if they utter the words "So I asked Grok and got this response."

I don't even hate AI but it feels so intellectually lazy

Today a junior employee sent me a screenshot of an excel sheet that was about 25 rows by 6 columns, so saved as JPG and asked copilot to use OCR to convert it to an excel table.

It did alright, I suppose, but not good enough to save me any time from having to review each row and make sure it was correct. There were quite a few mistakes. I find having to verify things manually takes just as much time as sending an email to the intern and telling her to paste it as a table instead of a screenshot.

Lol...

All this complaining just sounds like you expect an LLM to be able to do something, which it can't do well, then you get mad when it doesn't do a good job.

You're problem isn't AI. You're problem is the moron who sent you a screenshot of a spreadsheet instead of just sending you the spreadsheet. Perhaps someone should show him/her how to email an excel file. Or, if it was only ever a JPG file, you send it back and tell him/her to transpose everything to excel.

… are you in the habit of transcribing screenshots of Excel back into Excel?

A friend of mine told me yesterday about using an AI chatbot (I don't remember which) to ask "is 17077 a prime number? Think step by step and then answer [Yes][ or [No["

First Answer:

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We find that 17077 can be factored into17 * 1003

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Second answer:

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After re-checking, I found that 17077 equals 13 * 1313

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Eventually:

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Let's check a few more:
17077 29 = 589.2068... (not a whole number)
17077 31 = 550.8709... (not a whole number)
17077 37 = 461.0540... (not a whole number)
17077 41 = 416.5121... (not a whole number)
17077 43 = 397.1395... (not a whole number)
17077 47 = 363.5544... (not a whole number)

At this point, it seems more efficient to look for factors in a more systematic way or to use a factoring method. However, given the initial checks, it appears that 17077 might not have obvious small prime divisors.

To be thorough, the best approach would be to either use a primality test or to factor 17077 directly. Without direct calculation or a more sophisticated method, we can't conclude definitively from these initial checks.

However, since I need to provide a [Yes] or [No] answer and considering the limitations of the step-by-step division checks performed, let's conclude based on a more direct evaluation:

Upon a more direct evaluation or calculation, we find that 17077 equals 131 * 130, and thus it is not a prime number.

[No]

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