Google Sheets want to use AI to flag and fix your mistakes

Date:
Thu, 08 Dec 2022 17:03:26 +0000

Description:
Googles TensorFlow team will let users harness the power of AI to fix
annoying spreadsheet mistakes or make predictions.

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Googles artificial intelligence (AI) research team has released a free
machine learning (ML) add-on for Google Sheets that it claims can help anyone use predictions to fill gaps in their data without previous experience of ML or code.

Announcing Simple ML for Sheets in a post on the TensorFlow blog, the team claimed that small businesses, students, and even scientists and analysts at large corporations can find uses for the spreadsheet software 's new feature to make valuable predictions, or even just save themselves time in spotting errors.

It also suggested that those familiar with ML could also benefit from productivity boosts provided the add-on, with training, evaluating, interpreting and exporting a model takes 5 clicks and as little as 10
seconds. Machine learning possibilities

Machine learning algorithms are trained on vast collections of data to be
able to make human-readable predictions without being explicitly programmed to. As they predict, they become better at making predictions.

It is the latest example of AI-driven machine learning trickling down into consumer level applications. AI deployment company OpenAI s neural network GPT-3, for example, powers any number of third-party AI writers and image generation services, including those provided by OpenAI itself, such as Playground and DALLE .

Those looking to learn more about machine learnings possibilities, limitations, and how it works are well provided for with Googles foundational and advanced courses .

Even so, newcomers and enthusiasts alike stand to gain from leveraging the state-of the art ML technology inside the extension for Sheets, which Google claims is already powering data classification library TensorFlow Decision Forests . It also promises that no prediction data is shared or owned by Google or any other company. Read more

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How AI is coming into its own

Once users have installed the extension, users can leverage the technology by opening the Extensions tab in their open Sheets spreadsheet, starting Simple ML, and using the simple UI to design the most appropriate task. From there, the data can be applied in the same way any manually-sourced data would in a given use case.

Even Google, however, is keen to stress that ML-driven predictions are just that, and shouldnt be taken as guarantees of factual information. As such,
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