ChatGPT and AI

I appreciate that CHatGPT can do this and I wouldn't judge anyone who uses it for learning. But... If it didn't exist, don't you think you would have learned how to use Excel in some other way? Maybe from a fellow human?

I know that it is getting harder and harder to find humans to connect with for help. And I can see how AI is a solution to that problem. But it may be the case that all this tech is what has been isolating us from each other in the first place. Interacting with other humans, asking for help, offering help, communicating meaningfully with each other: these things are hard and for many people they don't come naturally. We have to learn them, and as AI becomes increasingly effective as both friend and mentor - a friend and mentor who requires no interpersonal skills from us whatsoever (it's not like AI shuts itself down if you're too rude or needy or demanding) - our incentive to learn how to deal with one another will become less and less.

There is one thing that ChatGPT helps me a lot with, is writing macros and formulas in Excel. That helps me a lot. I've even gotten better with Excel.

I’m such a cranky old man when it comes to Excel 365. There are so many new formulas that I was doing by hand in Excel for Office in Windows 7.

I’m feeling betrayed because I spent all this time learning how to use array formulas, nest formulas 4 layers deep, construct user defined formulas (UDF) to do things that didn’t exist yet (for the lay reader, a UDF is like a macro built into a formula; the difference being that the macro is fully automated, while a UDF takes input and returns output.) , AND get super fancy with pivot tables.

Cranky Part :
Where the heck was power pivot 12 ****ing years ago??? Why was XLOOKUP not included when VLOOKUP came out? Kids these days… When I was their age, we had to nest MATCH, INDEX and LOOKUP formulas to do an XLOOKUP! Also we had to code in Assembly, compiling both ways!!! The last part is a joke, lol