{"id":4482,"date":"2025-10-23T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4482"},"modified":"2025-10-04T07:13:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T12:13:38","slug":"predictable-yikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2025\/10\/predictable-yikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Predictable (yikes!)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>It isn&#8217;t flattering to understand that what I do is quite predictable.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ah these AI chattering bots\u2014they are amazing. Type a question, they call it a prompt, in plain English and out pops answers, sometimes as long as books, in plain English. This is amazing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, the software looks at a bunch of numbers and such that has been gathered. It predicts the next word that is most likely. An example prompt is, &#8220;There is a town in Texas that has the same name as a big city in France. That town name is what?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The answer is Paris. That&#8217;s just the most likely word given all the numbers calculated by reading all the stuff on the Internet. Predictable. Simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wait a minute&#8230;writing is predictable. Answering questions is predictable. So much of this amazing stuff is predictable. What I do all day is &#8230; predictable. Yikes! If I am so predictable, then software can predict and do my job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hmm. Perhaps I should be doing something that is not so predictable. Perhaps I should be producing something that is not so predictable. Perhaps&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips It isn&#8217;t flattering to understand that what I do is quite predictable. Ah these AI chattering bots\u2014they are amazing. Type a question, they call it a prompt, in plain English and out pops answers, sometimes as long as books, in plain English. This is amazing! Well, the software looks at a bunch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238,469,435,271,53,67,5],"tags":[240,470,438,272,174,187,128],"class_list":["post-4482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis","category-artificial-intelligence","category-context","category-jobs","category-problems","category-work","category-writing","tag-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-context","tag-jobs","tag-problems","tag-work","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482","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=4482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4483,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482\/revisions\/4483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}