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Trying to figure out what it was "thinking" here...
2+3=5 and... um... 'carry the 1'? "15!" Genius!
My guess: there's a lot of text examples in its training data summing 1+2+3+4+5=15. So the 1+2+3 pattern made the stochastic parrot go "ah, I recognize this! Here's the answer to 1+2+3+4+5".
as others are said, this screenshot could be carefully staged
you could be seeing
but with the preceeding "1" trimmed off and the remaining +9 in the cells above A11, where they have aligned the window so you can't see the 10th row.
It was thinking that 15 is the most common answer on the Internet to the request "sum the numbers above".
The
COPILOT()feature does not have access to your spreadsheet. You pass it the cell range it is supposed to use for context in the optional second parameter. The user did not provide any second parameter, so they're just asking it to generate some text based on the text of the prompt and nothing else.The person who made this tweet either didn't bother reading how to use the feature, or is being disingenuous.