OpenAI Outage
When my kids ask me why they should learn to write since they can just use AI, I&#x27;ll remind them of outages like this. I understand that we rely on calculators and don&#x27;t memorize as much arithmetic as we used to. But we never had to worry about a coordinated &#x27;calculator outage&#x27;, where access to calculation was unavailable.<p>It makes sense to use these tools, but we need to remember that we revert back to our human ability level when they are offline. We should still invest in our own human skills, and not assume that these tools will always be available. There will be minor outages like these, and in the case of cyber attacks, war or other major disruptions, they could be offline for longer periods of time.