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> Nothing frustrates me more than when software thinks it knows better than me. Would it be fair to rephrase that as "... and fails"? Because that's what we'r
by ethbro 9y ago
> Nothing frustrates me more than when software thinks it knows better than me.
Would it be fair to rephrase that as "... and fails"?
Because that's what we're really talking about, right? Those times when the smart system failed to correctly predict user intent, but lacked a fallback method for the user to clarify?
I'm sure there's an uncanny-valley-esque term out there for the difficulty "99% correct" smart systems have when users hit that 1% of incorrectness.
- nkrisc 9y agoI'm not sure of a good term for it, but by design when these "smart" system work you'll hardly even notice. They "just work." However that 1% of the time they fail disastrously, you'll definitely notice.
- tomc1985 9y ago> Would it be fair to rephrase that as "... and fails"? No. Unless you consider failure to be the vast majority of interactions with smart software