
Can we please stop applying human traits to chat bots?
Let‘s start the new year off with a rant shall we? Tech world we need to talk. Not you normal people just out at the grocery store, you all couldn‘t be bothered all that much with AI or LLMs, so I‘ll just talk to the tech folks this time. I have been watching and listening to videos and podcasts all year, in varying levels of hype about AI and these super cool but also highly probably crappy LLMs and all their catchy new features. Every host of these shows has a slightly different take on AI, but one thing that comes up a lot that drives me up the wall is when folks anthropomorphize LLMs. So this is a petition to cut it out. What does anthropomorphize mean? I‘ve typed it twice and I‘m exhausted. Thank goodness for spell check VS Code plugins. Anthropomorphize : verb; attribute human characteristics or behavior to (a god, animal, or object). “Anthropomorphize” is a long word that means to assign human characteristics, behaviors, or traits to an object that necessarily isn‘t human. And w
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