We have decades of experience with computers being deterministic machines that will return a correct output given a correct input and program.
I can’t multiply large numbers in my head, but if I plug 273*8113 into a calculator, I can expect it to give me the same, correct answer every time.
Now suddenly it’s „Well yes, it can make mistakes, but so can humans! Sometimes it’ll be right, but also sometimes it’ll make up a random answer, kinda like humans!”, which I suppose is true, but it’s also nonsense - the very reason I was using technology (in that case, a calculator) to do my work is because I wanted to avoid mistakes that a human (me) would make without it. If a piece of tech can’t be reliably expected to perform a task better than a person can on their own, then what’s really the point?
I can’t multiply large numbers in my head, but if I plug 273*8113 into a calculator, I can expect it to give me the same, correct answer every time.
Now suddenly it’s „Well yes, it can make mistakes, but so can humans! Sometimes it’ll be right, but also sometimes it’ll make up a random answer, kinda like humans!”, which I suppose is true, but it’s also nonsense - the very reason I was using technology (in that case, a calculator) to do my work is because I wanted to avoid mistakes that a human (me) would make without it. If a piece of tech can’t be reliably expected to perform a task better than a person can on their own, then what’s really the point?