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Posted by meetpateltech 3 days ago

Claude for Excel(www.claude.com)
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dosnem 2 days ago|
Anyone understand how this could work? My mental model for llm is predictive text but here how can it understand cell A1 which has a string is the “header” for all values under it? How does it learn to understand table data like that?
brookst 2 days ago||
LLMs already understand table data. "Predictive text" is somewhat true but so reductive that it leads to that kind of misconception.

HN is going to mangle this but here's a quick table:

| Type of Horse | Average Height | Typical Color | |----------------|----------------|-----------------| | Arabian | 15 hh | Bay, Gray | | Thoroughbred | 16 hh | Chestnut, Bay | | Clydesdale | 17.5 hh | Bay with White | | Shetland Pony | 10.5 hh | Black, Chestnut |

And after a prompt "pivot the table so rows are colors":

| Typical Color | Type of Horse | Average Height | |----------------|----------------------------------------|-----------------------| | Bay | Arabian, Thoroughbred, Clydesdale | 15 hh, 16 hh, 17.5 hh | | Gray | Arabian | 15 hh | | Chestnut | Thoroughbred, Shetland Pony | 16 hh, 10.5 hh | | Bay with White | Clydesdale | 17.5 hh | | Black | Shetland Pony | 10.5 hh |

bonsai_spool 2 days ago||
> Anyone understand how this could work? My mental model for llm is predictive text but here how can it understand cell A1 which has a string is the “header” for all values under it? How does it learn to understand table data like that?

I imagine it uses the new Agent Skills features

https://www.anthropic.com/news/skills

klausnrooster 2 days ago||
I'd like to see it compete in the Financial Modeling World Cup, say in Las Vegas this December. https://excel-esports.com
voidmain0001 2 days ago||
From their FAQ “Claude doesn’t have advanced Excel capabilities including pivot tables, conditional formatting, data validation, data tables, macros, and VBA. We’re actively working on these features.”
SteveLauC 2 days ago||
I really hope that all these kinds of integrations:

* Claude for Chrome * Gemini for Chrome * ChatGPT Atlas * ...

will be built on top of the ACP protocol, so that these “AI extensions” to everything can become standardized

6thbit 2 days ago||
Last week OpenAI hired ex-investment bankers to train a model to build financial models, now anthropic coming for excel.

Sounds like there's some sort of an AI race after finance people and businesses?

keernan 3 days ago||
If AI turns out to be the powerhouse it is claimed to be, AI's impact will be corporations replacing corporate dependencies upon 'Excel projects' created by self-taught assistants to department managers.
anshulbhide 2 days ago||
Just spent an hour trying to figure out how to create a waterfall chart. ChatGPT's python interpreter failed.

If this works right, this could be a game changer.

fragmede 2 days ago|
https://chatgpt.com/share/69005eec-6ee0-8009-a8d3-ebb1c30e72...

took me four prompts to do generate a waterfall chart using d3 js because it didn't want to run it. obviously with real numbers and not generated data, you'd need to check the results thoroughly.

mamonster 3 days ago||
On the one hand, most financial companies have a lot of processes in Excel that could be made better with something like Claude.

Banking secrecy laws + customer identifying data + AI tool = No bueno.

d4rkp4ttern 2 days ago||
Weird to see so much discussion when it’s still behind a waitlist. And it seems aimed at “enterprise” only
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