AI Tools For Excel (Enhance your work productivity with AI)

AI is here to stay and can amplify intelligence. This class promoted the importance of adapting to AI, and its role in improving workplace communication. The difference between AI tools and Large Language Models (LLMs) was explained, highlighting that tools like ChatGPT utilize LLMs and that AI agents can take autonomous actions, while co-pilots await specific user instructions.

The discussion also covered prompts and tokens as essential elements of AI interactions, AI integration within Excel, standalone AI tools like Claude AI and Bricks, and the secure Microsoft Copilot for Excel, with Prof. Emmaxson (CAMANDA) demonstrating its use for data analysis and stressing the critical role of human verification of AI outputs.

Our anchor concluded by highlighting external AI tools like Claude AI and Bricks for generating web dashboards and reports from Excel data and recommended the free GPT for Excel add-in for in-Excel AI tasks.