Stop Anthropomorphizing the Machine

(pseudosingleton.com)

21 points | by speckx a day ago ago

9 comments

  • kikkupico a day ago ago

    Wow! I just wrote the article "Stop trivialising AI: it’s not your intern, colleague or compiler" today and shared on HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47274213 - but I talk about different dangers though. Enjoyed reading your viewpoint.

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  • bediger4000 a day ago ago

    Exactly right. The author does miss something that journalists seem to like, "AI" apologizing. LLMs can print words that if a human said them, would constitute an apology, but an LLM is a program and a context, so that isn't an apology.

  • adampunk a day ago ago

    I 100% do not believe that anecdote about the boss. That’s fiction.

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    • cwmoore a day ago ago

      I'd tend to disagree, and can imagine that the scenario is a true but a narrowly outlined description of actual experience.

      What makes you so certain it isn't?

      • adampunk 21 hours ago ago

        It's (very) rhetorically convenient and notably non-specific.

        • cwmoore 19 hours ago ago

          It is that, because it’s the lede and discussing a former employer, right?