AI Anthropomorphism Debate
Commenters criticize the anthropomorphization of AI through terms like 'thinking', 'hallucinating', and 'AI' itself, arguing it misleads by implying human-like intelligence in statistical models.
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Please cease and desist from labeling things as AI. If you want to criticize the material, assume good faith and criticize it as if it is written by a human.
AI and humans aren't the same thing. Even if we do anthropomorphize AI.
Both terms are problematic as they anthropomorphize an algorithm.
Anthropomorphization in "prompt engineering" is what really gets me.
Wouldn't it be something if AI parlance crept into common parlance...
Don't anthropomorphize AIs. They hate it when you do that.
I don't know why the narrative became "don't call it hallucination". Grantly English isn't my mother tongue so I might miss some subtlty here. If you know how LLM works, call it "hallucination" doesn't make you know less. If you don't know how LLM works, using "hallucination" doesn't make you know less either. It's just a word meaning AI gives wrong[1] answer.People say it's "anthropomorphizing" but honestly I can
I think we need to quit calling it AI, and instead call it AS: Actual Stupidity
yep, I would call this the anthropomorphisation of llms. undesirable, just as any other kind of anthropomorphisation is.
The entire English dictionary has evolved into its current state, and there's several words that used to have the opposite meaning just from stubborn ironic use by the masses. As much as I like to be correct about my use of words, I think AI has established itself as a term that will stick around for now.Besides, I really don't think all the stigma comes from the term "artificial intelligence". You don't have to ever mention the term to a child interacting with Alexa,