From the course: Copilot in Excel: AI-Powered Financial Planning & Analysis

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How much can you rely upon Copilot?

How much can you rely upon Copilot?

- [Instructor] When integrating AI powered tools like Copilot into financial workflows, a question often arises, how much can we actually rely on these technologies? Well, let's push Copilot to answer some difficult questions. Let's see if we can trip it up and get it to provide incorrect responses despite good, genuine prompts. Let's go back over to our file, Red30 Tech marketing expenses variances. Up here, You'll remember that I have a social media forecast. If I go to table design, this here is Social Media Forecast, 2017 table. Over here in Copilot, I'm going to ask at the question using the table, Social Media Forecast 2017, what is the average for LinkedIn for the full year? So in other words, I wanted to take a look at this row. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 values, and I wanted to calculate the average. Let's see what we get. Okay, so Copilot gives me an answer. It says, the average for LinkedIn is going to calculate the average forecasted values from January to June, great, exactly what…

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