by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the oldest phrases in computing is still true. Rats. Some folks thought AI would fix this.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If I meant to find the sum of 2 and 3 but typed 2+4, I would have the wrong answer. Rats. Inputing the wrong information produces the wrong output. So said Charles Babbage some 120 years ago and so have said countless others since. <\/p>\n\n\n\n No worries. AI will fix all this. AI will find the answer we seek in a great big pile of stuff we have. We know the answer is there. Some agentic chattering bot avatar will find it for us and write a concise essay on the topic. Right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well, probably not. I am sure I put that document in here somewhere. Well, maybe I didn’t. Multiply that uncertainty by a number (maybe 1,000 or maybe 1,000,000,000) and I have more uncertainty. Okay, my colleagues did it, right? Probably not them either. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It seems we are back to the same old thing: if I am diligent everyday and record things as I should and put them in the right place at the right time, things will go better for me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sigh, I thought all these new tools would relieve me of the need for diligence. I continue to wish. I could do better. I guess we all should.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips One of the oldest phrases in computing is still true. Rats. Some folks thought AI would fix this. If I meant to find the sum of 2 and 3 but typed 2+4, I would have the wrong answer. Rats. Inputing the wrong information produces the wrong output. So said Charles Babbage some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[469,479,277,105,361,312,3,292,67],"tags":[470,480,278,219,362,313,126,295,187],"class_list":["post-4500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-chaos","category-commitment","category-competence","category-expertise","category-humility","category-technology","category-tools","category-work","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-chaos","tag-commitment","tag-competence","tag-expertise","tag-humility","tag-technology","tag-tools","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500","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=4500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4501,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500\/revisions\/4501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}