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Microsoft has put co -pilot in Excel. And you have also notified that you do not use it if you need the results to be correct

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Artificial intelligence has finally landed In one of the most famous spreadsheets in the world: Excel. But he hasn’t done it as many imagined. Talk to the program in natural language and automatically solve everything for us? Only in part. Copilot’s shortcuts allow to summarize, classify and order databut they do not turn Excel into a agent able to take control of a project from beginning to end. In addition, the novelty comes with clear limits: the function can make mistakes. Microsoft is testing co -pilot as a native function within the Excel calculation engine. The idea is simple: write an instruction in natural language within the sheet and obtain a result that is placed directly in the grid, with the same behavior as any Excel exit. Integration allows you to continue working with defined ranges, tables and names without changing the structure of the file, and the results are updated when the data changes, without resorting to scripts or external accessories. Copilot is landing in Microsoft Excel As we see, it is a useful function, but with clear limitations. At the moment we cannot ask in natural language things such as “fuses the books of the subsidiaries, make everything to euros to the official change, eliminate duplicates and enter me a quarterly consolidated balance with comparative graphics.” Copilot, for now, plays in another land: Understand instructions in natural languageYes, but it does it within Excel and always about the data you have on the sheet itself. Accepted that Copilot is not an automatic pilot, it is worth exploring what it is practical. Microsoft points to four daily fronts that are resolved without abandoning the sheet: Rain of ideas without leaving the sheet. Ask for a list of concepts, titles or keywords from a brief description. If we need it, we can ask that you rewrite a text in a lighter or more formal tone and leave the result ready to polish. Summaries that go to the point. Point out a wide range and request a short text with trends, peaks and falls. This is useful when a table must be converted into an understandable paragraph for a report. Direct classification in the grid. Deliver a column with comments, tickets or survey responses. We can ask that you return labels such as “positive/neutral/negative” and a brief category. Everything would turn to new columns to continue working. Lists and tables on the fly. From a description, which proposes a table with the columns that we indicate (task, responsible, date, state). It is a basis for organizing without wasting time mocking. ⠀In the official noteCatherine Pidgeon (Excel team) offers a very clear example of what Copilot can do today. Imagine a sheet with a column full of opinions about a new coffee maker in the office. Some value flavor, others complain about noise or deposit size. Copilot can read that column and return, right next to us, a table with two fields: the feeling of each comment (positive, neutral or negative) and a category Cut that helps you group (“taste”, “noise”, “capacity”). In minutes we would go from a messy list to something analyzable. There we decided: filter for the most frequent problems, count a category or prepare a summary. And how is it used in practice? Exactly like any other Excel function: writing the sign equal to the beginning of a cell and then the name of the function. In this case, Simply put = co -pilot () and add inside the instruction in natural language or the range of data that we want to use as a context. There are no tricks or hidden menus, it is invoked as invoked a = sum () or un = search (), which makes learning minimal and experience is familiar from the first moment. It is time to put the caution on the table. Copilot works within the book itself: it does not access the web or documents of the company, and its results must be reviewed and validated before including them in reports or business decisions. Microsoft is clear about it: it is not appropriate for high -risk scenarios (with legal, regulatory or compliance implications). There are also operational limits: the function has quotas of use (up to 100 calls every ten minutes and 300 per hour). Microsoft is clear about it: it is not appropriate for high -risk scenarios. What we are seeing should not surprise us either. Artificial intelligence has advanced by giant steps, but still has a weak point: it can be wrong. These inaccuracies are usually called “hallucinations”And, although technology improves with each generation, the companies that develop it warn that It is not convenient to re -one hundred percent. It is almost a courtesy reminder that we have already normalized: every time we open a chatbot as COPILOT, Chatgpt either GeminiWe find a warning that reminds us that what we read can contain errors. Will the day come when these failures disappear? There is no clear answer. Even paying for the most advanced versions, the fastest or most expensive, absolute security does not exist. That is the reflection that also applies in Excel: Copilot is useful and opens possibilities, but never replaces the tranquility it gives for oneself that the numbers walk. Copilot does not reach everyone yet. Microsoft is gradually display They are on the beta channel, both in Windows and Mac. The company ensures that in the coming months it will also be available in the Excel Web version through the Frontier program. Nothing must be done to activate it: the function appears on the sheet when the requirements are met, and its use is completely optional. Images | Microsoft | WIRESTOCK In Xataka | If the question is whether there is an AI bubble, Sam Altman has just answered. One with which he is winning

is that we depend on the Caribbean to correct it

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The heat wave It is leaving us very striking figures: yesterday six weather stations recorded temperatures above the 45º Ceslius, with almost a hundred collecting maximums above 42º; Red notices due to extreme risk associated with heat have spread by north and south. The heat wave is about to finish and we do not know what will happen later. To know, meteorologists already look at what happens in the atmosphere, not only in our environment but also in places as far away as the Caribbean. First twenty. The State Meteorology Agency (Aemet) foresee that the first twenty of August this year is The warmest In historical records. Until now, the year in which the average temperature between August 1 to 20 had reached its maximum value was in 2003, when the average temperature in peninsular Spain first exceeded the 26th. The agency’s forecasts indicate that this year we will exceed this barrier. It should also be noted that in addition to the 2003 registration, the years with the first twenty of August were the years from 2022 to 2024. Aemet data indicates an upward trend in temperature for this period: since 2008, only three years have seen records below the average temperatures of the historical series. Touching the 46º. We pointed at the beginning that temperatures exceeded 45º in various parts of our geography. Among these recordsthat of the Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz) airport can be highlighted, which yesterday reached 45.8º; considerably above the 45.4º collected in El Granado (Huelva), or the 45.3º of Montor (Huelva). From tomorrow the situation is expected to improve. An imminent thermal downturn will bring us temperatures that will not only be colder than those we have seen in recent weeks, they will also be cooler than what is usually usual at this point in August. The least friendly face of this cool will be brought by storms: They are expected accumulated rainfall above 50 mm in large part of the north and east of the Peninsula. Precipitation also seem to dodge the areas most affected by fire during these days. A brief relief? The meteorological change will be welcome by many, but perhaps it does not last long. The models indicate A new rebound of the temperature during the next few days. Uncertainty is high and the evolution of the situation will depend on what happens in the atmosphere in the coming days, not only in our environment but also in the North Atlantic. This summer has been marked by a static atmospheric circulation that has allowed the stagnation of warm air masses on the peninsula. Looking at the Caribbean. That is why meteorologists Look now What happens in places as far away as the Caribbean, where tropical storm Erin continues its progress. This storm is not expected to have a direct impact on our environment, as has happened on some occasions, but its indirect effect could affect us, as explained by the Aemet researcher and German JJ disseminator. The storm that now advances north of the Antilles will turn, predictably to the north and towards the second half of the week could end up taking a northeast direction, standing in latitudes already close to ours. A storm of these dimensions could condition atmospheric circulation, even if it does not approach the European continent. In Xataka | Fire have made a new high -risk activity today in Spain: living near the mountain Image | ECMWF

Anthropic trained his AI with millions of books with copyright. To a judge that has seemed correct (with a great asterisk)

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Anthropic has just achieved a very important legal victory in that legal battle that the world of AI maintains with copyright and copyright for years. The sentence, favorable to Anthropic, can sit a great precedent for the rest of the cases in which AI companies have been sued for training their models with works with copyright. But be careful, because it has not been a total victory. ANTOPIC WIN. In the demand of three authors against Anthropic, the company was accused of downloading millions of books with copyright, in addition to buying some of them to scan and digitize them. The objective: train their AI models. Judge William Alsup has made clear In his sentence that “the use for training was a fair use.” Companies that develop AI models have always shielded in that concept of just use to argue how their models with all kinds of works, including those protected by copyright. Fair use. This legal criterion maintains that limited use of protected material is allowed without needing permission from the owner of those rights. In the laws of Copyright, one of the ways that judges have to determine if that type of activity is a fair use is to examine whether that use was “transformer.” Or what is the same, if something new has been created from these works. For Alsup “the technology in question is one of the most transformatives that many of us will see in our lives.” A victory with a great asterisk. Although the judge indicated that this training process was a fair use, he also determined that the authors could lead Anthropic to trial for hacking their works. The company argued that this was justified because it was “at least reasonably necessary to train LLMS.” For Alsup the issue is precisely that although they ended up buying some of them, he built a huge library for which he did not pay: “Anthropic downloaded more than seven million pirate copies of books, did not pay anything and retained these pirate copies in his library even after deciding that he would not use them to train their AI (at all or never again). The authors argue that Anthropic should have paid for these pirate copies of the library. This sentence coincides with it.” Thomson-Reuters’ precedent. A few months ago Thomson Reuters won a 2020 demand Against a so -called Ross Intelligence Startup. According to them, the company had reproduced material from its legal research division, called Westlaw. The judge rejected the arguments of the defense and declared that the argument for fair use could not be applied in that case. The sentence against Anthropic is right in the opposite direction and blesses that type of use … while companies buy the works with which they train their models. The company of AI, by the way, had already achieved a small legal victory In a previous case against Universal Music. Anthropic downloaded piecework books. In the trial it was revealed how the co -founder of Anthropic, Ben Mann, downloaded in winter 2021 data sets such as The so -called Books3 or libgen (Library Genesis) that they are nothing more than gigantic book compilations, many of which are protected by copyright. Goal is in the same. All companies that develop AI models have been trained with all types of data, including works protected by copyright, and they all face a similar situation. Goal, for example, downloaded 81.7 TB of books with copyright via Bittorrent to train their AI models. That makes the company of Mark Zuckerberg can end up suffering a destination similar to that of Anthropic, which has before him a new very dangerous judicial process for his finances. A potential fine of billions of dollars. As indicated in Wired, the minimum fine for this type of copyright rape is $ 750 per book. Alsup indicated that the illegally unloaded library of Anthropic consists of at least seven million books, and that means that the company faces a potentially huge fine. At the moment there is no date for that new trial. The endless battle of AI and copyright. This is the last episode of a soap opera that we will undoubtedly see many more chapters. Companies like Google, OpenAI either Perplexity They have been equally voracious when training their models and have devastated public (and not so public) data on the Internet. Copyright’s rape demands are accumulating, and cases such as Anthropic may sit a predictive disturbing for all of them if they did not buy the books they used to train their models. Image | Emil Widlund In Xataka | 5,000 “tokens” of my blog are being used to train an AI. I have not given my permission

There is only one correct way to place the toilet paper. A patent ended the debate in 1891

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We have been freeing all kinds of battles, and in some cases the response passed between disputes of each other. Among those debates there is one that never seems to disappear because both sides have it as clear. We refer to toilet paper and correct way to hang it. If we take decades to achieve a significant advance of the roll, it makes sense that the controversy has endured. The funny thing is that the answer was from the beginning. A “war” of the century and a half. Eternal dispute over How to hang up The toilet paper (with the “above” or “below” sheet) has generated opinions found, family debates and even discussions lit. Those who prefer the “OVER” method (above) Feel practical and hygienic reasons: it is easier to locate the end of the paper, reduce the risk of wall contact (and therefore with germs) and is visually more orderly. However, on the other sidewalk, the supporters of the “under” (below) appeal to a more discreet appearance and the fact that, for example, it makes it difficult for pets or children at home unwind the whole paper. An enlightened invention. However, all this controversy seems to have found an official response in an unexpected place: a document more than 130 years ago. In 2015, writer Owen Williams He rescued an image historical of Google Patents Archives which showed the patent recorded in 1891 by Seth Wheeler, nothing more and nothing less than the inventor of the perforated toilet paper. In it, it is clearly enlightened how the paper should be hung: above the roll (image below). The patent, registered by Albany Perforated Wraping Paper Company, includes unequivocal diagrams in which the paper unwinds from the front. The Wheeler patent Wheeler’s reasons. The inventor not only patented the concept of perforated paper in 1871, but, two decades later, perfected the roll design, with the intention of minimizing waste and facilitating its use without the need for complicated portarrolls. Your goal It was efficiencydo not feed endless debates: “My improved roll can be used in simpler supports,” wrote in the text of the patent. In its original conception, the paper had to fall forward to facilitate the individual tear of the perforated leaves, thus avoiding accidental unwinders or an unnecessary waste. Yes, Nokia played toilet paper before mobile Rescue science. There are more data that corroborate that the “pro-insane” are right. Science also supports this orientation for purely health reasons. According to Dr. Christian Moro explainedProfessor of Health Sciences at the Bond University, hanging the paper with the blade above reduces the risk that users touch the rear wall of the support when looking for the end of the roll, which can minimize that propagation of bacteria. Moro remembered that among the potential infection agents which can be found in the bathrooms are streptococcus, staphylococcus, E. coli and common cold viruses, all capable of transmitting through contact with contaminated surfaces. Preventing the hands from entering unnecessary contact with the wall or roll support is, therefore, a simple but effective measure to reduce the risk of infection in shared spaces. An invention … to review? Beyond the debate on how it should be placed, in recent years others have appeared around the invention. Explained the New York Times In a column that although its invention represented at the time a technical improvement with respect to previous methods (which included, attention, leaves, marine shells, sticks with sponges or even reusable ceramics), the persistence of its use reveals less a functional efficacy than a cultural resistance to abandoning the family. Here appears the Covid-19 Pandemia, at which time the toilet paper acquired An unusual prominence: Not because of its medical utility, but as a symbol of control against chaos. The Collective hysteria He led to empty shelves, ignoring that neither the supply was threatened nor the role was the most hygienic solution. And despite this, experts agree that it is far from being the cleanest or healthier option. The evidence. The Times explained That researchers in infectious diseases and colorectal health agree that the exclusive use of paper does not guarantee adequate cleaning and can, in fact, cause irritations and favor disease transmission. Among the pathogenic agents that can survive in poorly eliminated fecal remains are those germs and bacteria that we comment before and that are the cause of urinary infections. Even traces of the same were detected Coronavirus at the time in human feces. According to Dr. H. Randolph Bailey, colorectal surgeon in Houston, many anal ailments that he observes in consultation come from Excessive cleaning or with inappropriate products, such as wet wipes with irritating perfumes and chemicals. Water as a solution. Here a parallel debate opens, surely more bitter. The reason? The most hygienic method, according to many specialists, is the rinse with water, either by drums or similar. In Japan, for example, smart toilets with jets of warm water They are the normwhile in the West adoption remains marginal. The reasons are not technical or economic (today there are compact and accessible solutions), but rather cultural. Bidé rejection has been historically associated with prejudices of modest During World War IIwhen American soldiers met the bida in French brotheses, which made them “suspect” objects. The anecdote of an American tourist who confused it with a bathtub For babies illustrates to what extent the discomfort in the face of the unknown has stopped its adoption, even in France, where it was originally common. O Tallitas. In recent times a “plan C” has emerged in front of the fundamentalists of roll or water: wet wipes. The problem is that it has been accompanied by Environmental consequences. Its accumulation in sewerage networks, combined with fat and waste, has given rise to huge obstructions (known in the world Anglo as “Fatbergs“) capable of collapsing urban sanitation systems. Under that prism, instead of improving the panorama, the wipes have added a new problem to another already existing one, fed by an industry that promotes … Read more

Is there a correct way to discard used oil?

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The renowned Spanish chef, Karlos Arguiñano, proposes a sustainable solution to discard dirty oil and bets on the common sense and responsibility of users. Although it is very usual to throw the oil used by the sink, it is not a correct practice because it is highly polluting, with great environmental impact and damage the pipes. It is estimated that a liter of oil has a polluting power that reaches up to 1,000 liters of water, according to the AQUAE Foundation cited by Alimente. The oil makes water reuse more difficult, damages the pipes and generates the formation of fatbergs, large accumulations of fat and waste in the pipes. Consciousness is the key to domestic recycling Arguiñano explains that “90% of people threw dirty oil through the sink. There will be those who continue doing that and will not care, but that is a real guarrada. ” One of the ways it proposes is store the oil in a container and then take it to a point for recycling, since it not only helps protect the environment, but also contributes to a more sustainable economy. In addition, it helps prevent home damage. Step by step to throw used kitchen oil Below is a safe way to discard the oil according to the oleic oil mark, in just 3 steps: 1. Oil safe handling The first thing to do is let the used kitchen oil cool to avoid burns or injuries. It must cool for a few hours. 2. Use a resistant container To ensure that the oil does not spill, a lid -resistant container must be sought. 3. Recite the oil Take the container to a recycling or collection center. 4.- Bag in the garbage You can also rule it out in the garbage, taking care of not spilling the oil in the garbage, that is, it must be in a closed and lid bowl. Continue reading: (Tagstotranslate) Kitchen tips

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