by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Can’t use one of those AI tools in your workplace. Solve that problem.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Some wise person once said something about a hammer and a nail. It goes something like, “if the only tool you have is a hammer, the world looks like a nail.” This has something to do with another wise-person saying about, “There is no free lunch.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Enough old, wise sayings. I face problems. I have resources. The resources are limited. What do I do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some of these current AI tools are useful. If the problem has to do with text, which many of my current problems do, these tools are quite useful. I have this AI tool and that AI tool. I work in this setting and that setting. Sometimes I am in a setting where my problem would be easy to solve if I had a tool that I don’t have. Rats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Go back to the other setting, ask the AI tool how to solve the problem in the first setting with the tools available there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, I have a problem in a setting, a tightly controlled office, that is solvable by writing a Java program. All I have, however, is Power Shell. How do I solve the problem with that? Another example: I have a problem I can solve with Excel. I don’t have Excel in this setting. How can I solve it with bash scripts?<\/p>\n\n\n\n And then I can extend this with: I have a problem that a group of degree-holding engineers can solve. I don’t have those people. What I have are 18-year-old high school seniors. How can I solve this problem?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hmm. Use a tool to suggest tools. There may be something to this. All I have is a hammer. How do I make my problem look like a nail?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips Can’t use one of those AI tools in your workplace. Solve that problem. Some wise person once said something about a hammer and a nail. It goes something like, “if the only tool you have is a hammer, the world looks like a nail.” This has something to do with another wise-person […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[394,469,12,53,267,368,337,292],"tags":[393,470,135,174,268,365,338,295],"class_list":["post-4622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternatives","category-artificial-intelligence","category-design","category-problems","category-research","category-resources","category-solutions","category-tools","tag-alternatives","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-design","tag-problems","tag-research","tag-resources","tag-solutions","tag-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622","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=4622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4623,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622\/revisions\/4623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}