{"id":3837,"date":"2023-03-02T01:58:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T06:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3837"},"modified":"2023-02-18T08:08:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T13:08:26","slug":"the-computer-is-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2023\/03\/the-computer-is-down\/","title":{"rendered":"The Computer is Down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We seem to be far more tolerant of technical failures.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I was a kid (we played baseball in the streets and things like that), I often heard the excuse, &#8220;The computer is down.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That excuse brought all sorts of grievous vexation that excuses usually bring. It was recognized as an excuse for failure. We didn&#8217;t seem to tolerate excuses much in that day of street baseball. I guess skinned knees, torn clothing, and all made us less tolerant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We tolerate more these days. ChatGPT is available for free use. Well, some days I see a message about the thing being too busy and I should come back later. I guess the computer is down or something. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And we all seem to accept that excuse. &#8220;Good enough&#8221; is one of the accepted excuses of our age. Hey, it&#8217;s free, so what do I expect?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I find it interesting that back in the 1980s various AI technologies were ready to be tried, but were held back. People wouldn&#8217;t accept something that was right 90% of the time (when human experts were right only 80% of the time). People would be outraged at those 10% incorrect answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today? It&#8217;s sort of funny to see the silly mistakes the software makes. The computer is up, well, sort of, but limping along and making comical errors. That&#8217;s okay today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips We seem to be far more tolerant of technical failures. When I was a kid (we played baseball in the streets and things like that), I often heard the excuse, &#8220;The computer is down.&#8221; That excuse brought all sorts of grievous vexation that excuses usually bring. It was recognized as an excuse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[297,469,105,83,70,3],"tags":[322,470,219,200,190,126],"class_list":["post-3837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-artificial-intelligence","category-competence","category-computing","category-excuses","category-technology","tag-accountability","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-competence","tag-computing","tag-excuses","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3838,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837\/revisions\/3838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}