Software King of the World Microsoft has announced details of its new "SpreadsheetLLM," claiming it has the "potential to transform spreadsheet data management and analysis." One issue with using LLMs ...

Spreadsheets, which are spreadsheets, are a demon for large-scale language models (LLMs), as they have elements such as vast tables, a wide variety of formatting, complex formulas and references.

The rapid expansion of generative AI is changing the face of technology. For the first time, the words, images, and even videos appearing online may be the product not of humans but of a sophisticated ...

This paper extends the discussion of the relationship between optimization and electronic spreadsheet modelling. Previous authors have described two connections. These are, first, the use of ...

Cutting corners: Spreadsheets are a staple of so many jobs and business fields that it is almost impossible to quantify their economic value. People adept with this tool are in high demand and often ...

Growing cities tend to run out of land for waste management and new landfill sites. Artificial Intelligence can help city managers create more powerful long-term forecasts of solid waste volumes and ...

In a post last month I wrote about Powerset COO Steve Newcomb’s use of predictive modeling to guess early growth rates so that they have enough hardware to scale. Good for them, I said, for releasing ...