Grok muscles into Excel with an AI add-in of its own

You've got an idea for an Excel spreadsheet, but building it is another matter. Microsoft's Copilot can help, and now SpaceXAI is offering an alternative: the Grok add-in for Excel. Available on the Microsoft Marketplace, the add-in places a sidebar in Excel that can "search the web, update spreadsheets, or build powerful …

[Blackjack]

NOT MY SPREADSHEETS!

[Irongut]

Organizations that already have a Grok subscription

Are there any? I know Musk forced the banks involved in the SpaceX IPO to buy it but otherwise why would anyone use company funds for Sex Bots of the SS?

[Blackjack]

Re: Organizations that already have a Grok subscription

"why would anyone use company funds for Sex Bots of the SS?"

Yaah if you are going to use company funds at least use them to have sex for real.

[IGotOut]

Re: Organizations that already have a Grok subscription

"why would anyone use company funds for Sex Bots of the SS?"

I didn't know Mattel had licenced Barbie to Manchild (look it up if you have no ide what I'm talking about).

[alain williams]

Non trivial spreadsheets ...

are hard to get right - simple things like range errors hard to spot and bad results easy to get.

Would you really trust some spreadsheet that an AI found on the Internet ?

[oldandgrey]

Re: Non trivial spreadsheets ...

I agree. Spreadsheets are like circular power saws without any safety covers. Powerful tools, but utterly dangerous. I have seen people ruining their professional reputations by not being able to manage the complexity of the spreadsheets they themselves created. What will happen when people have to manage, and be held accountable for, the complexity created by a LLM?

[Paul Crawford]

Re: Non trivial spreadsheets ...

For my sins (which are many and varied) I have created a few complex technical spreadsheets in the past. And I regret them enormously :(

Why did I do it? Well that was what the customer asked for m'laud. But really anything beyond a few trivial cell formulae should be taken round the back of your work and shot...

[Excused Boots]

As I understand it, the add-on briefly plays “Tomorrow Belongs to Me”, whenever you click on a cell.

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks, but…

..no bloody way!

[just4this]

Double whammy

Elon is so sneaky.

Shoving Grok into Excel gains him a foothold in the database as well as spreadsheet market.

Unless Grok is wiser the users who use Excel for both and refuses.