Comments: 7 Responses to “8 Ways ChatGPT Can Help You While Using Mac Numbers”
John
11 months ago
I often tell people to use the browser and ask questions for getting help, but you just showed that asking ChatGPT is way more helpful. Thanks.
Chris O'Connor
11 months ago
I have been trying out some chatgpt operations based on your suggestions. I was asking it to average a string of numbers from a column in a numbers spreadsheet. interestingly it was not correctly summing the string I gave it. See this equation it gave me:
"The total value of the provided string of numbers is:
Chris: Yes, it can get some things wrong because it is simulating human response. So humans can get this wrong and thus so can ChatGPT. Always good to check results when asking a direct calculation question like that. Did you try calling it out? Like asking on the next line "But that is wrong." It will apologize and try again.
Chris O'Connor
11 months ago
Gary, yes I did ask it to double check. I even asked it to take two numbers at a time and then sum the results. It seemed to be misreading some of the numbers. Eventually, after reframing the equation several times, I did get it to respond with a correct answer. But following all this, when attempting to re-ask the original question, it answered incorrectly again, this time coming up with 52, one closer but still wrong. But I get your point, it is perfectly imperfect. Love all your stuff!! Thanx
Sheldon
11 months ago
Thanks bunches
Art Busbey
11 months ago
When I ask ChatGPT to make a spreadsheet, as you did in several examples, it tells me it can't make spreadsheets and keeps printing out a rather primitive text 'table' with delimiters (bang characters, commas, etc.). Did you do something special?
I often tell people to use the browser and ask questions for getting help, but you just showed that asking ChatGPT is way more helpful. Thanks.
I have been trying out some chatgpt operations based on your suggestions. I was asking it to average a string of numbers from a column in a numbers spreadsheet. interestingly it was not correctly summing the string I gave it. See this equation it gave me:
"The total value of the provided string of numbers is:
4 + 3 + 3 + 5 + 4 + 4 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 4 + 3 = 53"
I knew the correct sum = 51. I was surprised that such a purportedly sophisticated site could fail such a simple task.
Chris: Yes, it can get some things wrong because it is simulating human response. So humans can get this wrong and thus so can ChatGPT. Always good to check results when asking a direct calculation question like that. Did you try calling it out? Like asking on the next line "But that is wrong." It will apologize and try again.
Gary, yes I did ask it to double check. I even asked it to take two numbers at a time and then sum the results. It seemed to be misreading some of the numbers. Eventually, after reframing the equation several times, I did get it to respond with a correct answer. But following all this, when attempting to re-ask the original question, it answered incorrectly again, this time coming up with 52, one closer but still wrong. But I get your point, it is perfectly imperfect. Love all your stuff!! Thanx
Thanks bunches
When I ask ChatGPT to make a spreadsheet, as you did in several examples, it tells me it can't make spreadsheets and keeps printing out a rather primitive text 'table' with delimiters (bang characters, commas, etc.). Did you do something special?
Art: Nothing special. Ask it for the data in CSV format, maybe?