#anthropomorphization — Public Fediverse posts

#AI #chatbot #LLMs #GenAI #anthropomorphization then sadly followed by #aipsychosis #aidelusion

Originally 1966 #ELIZAeffect coined by #Weizenbaum who escaped nazi germany as teenager, to become #mit #compsci pioneer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect

programmed a simple psychiatrist #chatbot —JavaScript https://web.archive.org/web/20250114122616/https://web.njit.edu/~ronkowit/eliza.html —
Typical answers:
- tell me more about that
- please go on

80s tv recreation of his unexpected surprise once #Eliza archaic bot deceived his secretary:
https://youtu.be/RMK9AphfLco

#AI #chatbot #LLMs #GenAI #anthropomorphization then sadly followed by #aipsychosis #aidelusion

Originally 1966 #ELIZAeffect coined by #Weizenbaum who escaped nazi germany as teenager, to become #mit #compsci pioneer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect

programmed a simple psychiatrist #chatbot —JavaScript https://web.archive.org/web/20250114122616/https://web.njit.edu/~ronkowit/eliza.html —
Typical answers:
- tell me more about that
- please go on

80s tv recreation of his unexpected surprise once #Eliza archaic bot deceived his secretary:
https://youtu.be/RMK9AphfLco

#AI #chatbot #LLMs #GenAI #anthropomorphization then sadly followed by #aipsychosis #aidelusion

Originally 1966 #ELIZAeffect coined by #Weizenbaum who escaped nazi germany as teenager, to become #mit #compsci pioneer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect

programmed a simple psychiatrist #chatbot —JavaScript https://web.archive.org/web/20250114122616/https://web.njit.edu/~ronkowit/eliza.html —
Typical answers:
- tell me more about that
- please go on

80s tv recreation of his unexpected surprise once #Eliza archaic bot deceived his secretary:
https://youtu.be/RMK9AphfLco

#AI #chatbot #LLMs #GenAI #anthropomorphization then sadly followed by #aipsychosis #aidelusion

Originally 1966 #ELIZAeffect coined by #Weizenbaum who escaped nazi germany as teenager, to become #mit #compsci pioneer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect

programmed a simple psychiatrist #chatbot —JavaScript https://web.archive.org/web/20250114122616/https://web.njit.edu/~ronkowit/eliza.html —
Typical answers:
- tell me more about that
- please go on

80s tv recreation of his unexpected surprise once #Eliza archaic bot deceived his secretary:
https://youtu.be/RMK9AphfLco

#AI #chatbot #LLMs #GenAI #anthropomorphization then sadly followed by #aipsychosis #aidelusion

Originally 1966 #ELIZAeffect coined by #Weizenbaum who escaped nazi germany as teenager, to become #mit #compsci pioneer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect

programmed a simple psychiatrist #chatbot —JavaScript https://web.archive.org/web/20250114122616/https://web.njit.edu/~ronkowit/eliza.html —
Typical answers:
- tell me more about that
- please go on

80s tv recreation of his unexpected surprise once #Eliza archaic bot deceived his secretary:
https://youtu.be/RMK9AphfLco

"We believe that language is a device to increase people’s “AI” literacy, helping them make informed choices about technology acceptance.

A more deliberate and thoughtful way forward is to talk about “AI” systems in terms of what we use systems to do, often specifying input and/or output. That is, talk about functionalities that serve our purposes, rather than “capabilities” of the system. Rather than saying a model is “good at” something (suggesting the model has skills) we can talk about what it is “good for”. Who is using the model to do something, and what are they using it to do?

It takes effort to swim upstream against anthropomorphizing language embedded in commonly-used technical terms and popular discourse, both in recognizing the language at all but also in finding suitable alternatives. Whether we are participating in local discussions making decisions for our workplaces, schools or communities or writing for broad audiences we share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language that embeds the tech companies’ marketing pitches."

https://www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-talk-about-how-we-talk-about-ai/

#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #AIHype #Anthropomorphization #AILiteracy

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Researchers Warn Against Treating #AI Outputs as Human-Like #Reasoning - Slashdot

#Arizona State University researchers are pushing back [PDF] against the widespread practice of describing AI language models' intermediate text generation as "reasoning" or "thinking," arguing this #anthropomorphization creates dangerous misconceptions about how these systems actually work

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/29/1411236/researchers-warn-against-treating-ai-outputs-as-human-like-reasoning?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

"We must stop giving AI human traits. My first interaction with GPT-3 rather seriously annoyed me. It pretended to be a person. It said it had feelings, ambitions, even consciousness.

That’s no longer the default behaviour, thankfully. But the style of interaction — the eerily natural flow of conversation — remains intact. And that, too, is convincing. Too convincing.

We need to de-anthropomorphise AI. Now. Strip it of its human mask. This should be easy. Companies could remove all reference to emotion, judgement or cognitive processing on the part of the AI. In particular, it should respond factually without ever saying “I”, or “I feel that”… or “I am curious”.

Will it happen? I doubt it. It reminds me of another warning we’ve ignored for over 20 years: “We need to cut CO₂ emissions.” Look where that got us. But we must warn big tech companies of the dangers associated with the humanisation of AIs. They are unlikely to play ball, but they should, especially if they are serious about developing more ethical AIs.

For now, this is what I do (because I too often get this eerie feeling that I am talking to a synthetic human when using ChatGPT or Claude): I instruct my AI not to address me by name. I ask it to call itself AI, to speak in the third person, and to avoid emotional or cognitive terms.

If I am using voice chat, I ask the AI to use a flat prosody and speak a bit like a robot. It is actually quite fun and keeps us both in our comfort zone."

https://theconversation.com/we-need-to-stop-pretending-ai-is-intelligent-heres-how-254090?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-gb

#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Chatbots #Intelligence #Anthropomorphization

@clacke

Re. Not anthropomorphizing LLMs

I'm a sucker for this. Thankyou for writing about it. I'll apologise to an inanimate object if I walk into it.

I find useful practical tips for myself in following this to be:
1. Use the verb "I prompted" rather than I told or I asked.
2. State that the program "output" rather than it replied.
3. I don't discuss "confabulation" because it's an anthropomorphization (the reality is that the computer program is doing exactly what it is instructed to do by the user), but if I was compelled to anthropomorphize, I would use "confabulation" rather than hallucination.

I would be curious to know if you or any other readers had any more tips!

The following cartoon is from:
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/precise

#LLM #AI #GAN #programming #language #linguistics #metacognition #philosophy #computers #anthropomorphization #maths #mathematics #math

@philosophy Talk ahead in our upcoming workshop "Mensch Metapher Maschine. Das Selbst im Spiegel der Technik | Die Technik im Spiegel des Selbst" in Luxemburg on Monday and Tuesday.

I will analyze public and scientific practices of anthropomorphizing the non-human and of human self-#technomorphization.

#Philosophie #philosophy #AI #KI #Anthropomorphization

In this house we anthropomorphize inanimate objects. Our Peugot 107 is named Adora Belle Dearheart from Terry Pratchett. Our washing machine is named James like Jesse and James from Team Rocket because it sounds like he's going to take off and between the two of the gay Millenial icons seemed the more likely to take a load.

Now I have a bike. She weighs 17kg. She's a big girl. I felt that she was a Pam. Seemed like a good name for a apple-bottomed, southern girl in a sundress with a pollyanna mentality that would be down for a good ride in the country. Say hi to Pam. I ride her 5 km to work everyday.

#bike #anthropomorphization #life

Leidenfrost Effect. Macro. Slow Mo. 📺🌫️😂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWjhx0iISjw

#science #humor #anthropomorphization #theHorrorTheHorror

@Gargron one word. #anthropomorphization

It's not a Computer, it's a companion!

by Justine Moore, Bryan Kim, Yoki Li & Martin Casado

“The great thing about AI is that it is constantly evolving. One day it will be better than a real (girlfriend). One day, the real one will be the inferior choice.”

(Andreessen Horowitz a16z website)

#AI #AIGirlfriends #Replika #Andreessen #Horowitz #sexism #anthropomorphization #a16z

https://adiowrites.wordpress.com/2023/07/31/of-ai-girlfriends-heady-cocktail-of-fallacies-and-ethical-quandaries/

#HvFoerster on the origins of #computational_neuroscience

For reasons that still baffle me, it was the pragmatic American engineers and scientists, not the romantic Europeans, who began to toss anthropomorphic sand into the gear box of evolving notions and ideas. To name two such cases, the computer people began to talk about a machine’s storage system as if it were a computer’s #memory, and the communication engineers began to talk about signals as if they were #information.

Perhaps these were the precursors for the second derailment which, ironically, was the inverse of the first. lt worked as follows. The first phase was #anthropomorphization: mental functions projected into machines. However, we knew how these machines worked because we built them and wrote the programs. Consequently, an appropriate “#mechanomorphization,” the concepts dealing with computer hard- and software were projected back into the workings of the brain and, presto!, we knew how the #mind worked.

Heinz Von Foerster
*To know and to let know - an applied theory of knowledge
Canadian Library Journal, Vol. 39, No. 5, October l982.*

Two robot friends enjoy a scenic view • #maine #anthropomorphization #MyDayInMaine

@emilymbender @jeffjarvis

Precious @emilymbender #scicomm skills in just 4 min:

1 #TextSynthesisMachine
2 #aiHype
3 #Anthropomorphization
4 #aiBias
5 #UndisclosedDatasets

fav bit:

» if it makes sense,
it is because you made sense of it «

https://youtu.be/NIqgr3AF3VE

HT via @WritingItReal

#ChatGPT #GPT4 #chatbot #LLMs

@WritingItReal @emilymbender
Amazing #SciComm in 4'

1 #TextSynthesisMachine
2 #aiHype
3 #Anthropomorphization
4 #aiBias
5 #UndisclosedDatasets

My favorite triplet:

» it is designed to come up with plausible sounding strings,
but that doesn't mean it's right,
and it doesn't mean that you can go, and find out where that information came from «

» if students are tuning to this out of desperation,
then the problem has happened earlier «

» if it makes sense,
it is because you made sense of it «

For me the silver lining of Twitter's destruction is stuff like this.

https://www.tumblr.com/clottedscream/700768958168580096/pins-you-against-a-wall-you-thought-you-could

#twitter #tumblr #socialmedia #anthropomorphization #eroticart #queerart #lesbianart #queer #queerwomen #lesbian #lesbians #gay #domme

Two robot friends enjoy a scenic view • #maine #anthropomorphization #MyDayInMaine

Two robot friends enjoy a scenic view • #maine #anthropomorphization #MyDayInMaine

Two robot friends enjoy a scenic view • #maine #anthropomorphization #MyDayInMaine

#HvFoerster on the origins of #computational_neuroscience

For reasons that still baffle me, it was the pragmatic American engineers and scientists, not the romantic Europeans, who began to toss anthropomorphic sand into the gear box of evolving notions and ideas. To name two such cases, the computer people began to talk about a machine’s storage system as if it were a computer’s #memory, and the communication engineers began to talk about signals as if they were #information.

Perhaps these were the precursors for the second derailment which, ironically, was the inverse of the first. lt worked as follows. The first phase was #anthropomorphization: mental functions projected into machines. However, we knew how these machines worked because we built them and wrote the programs. Consequently, an appropriate “#mechanomorphization,” the concepts dealing with computer hard- and software were projected back into the workings of the brain and, presto!, we knew how the #mind worked.

Heinz Von Foerster
*To know and to let know - an applied theory of knowledge
Canadian Library Journal, Vol. 39, No. 5, October l982.*

#HvFoerster on the origins of #computational_neuroscience

For reasons that still baffle me, it was the pragmatic American engineers and scientists, not the romantic Europeans, who began to toss anthropomorphic sand into the gear box of evolving notions and ideas. To name two such cases, the computer people began to talk about a machine’s storage system as if it were a computer’s #memory, and the communication engineers began to talk about signals as if they were #information.

Perhaps these were the precursors for the second derailment which, ironically, was the inverse of the first. lt worked as follows. The first phase was #anthropomorphization: mental functions projected into machines. However, we knew how these machines worked because we built them and wrote the programs. Consequently, an appropriate “#mechanomorphization,” the concepts dealing with computer hard- and software were projected back into the workings of the brain and, presto!, we knew how the #mind worked.

Heinz Von Foerster
*To know and to let know - an applied theory of knowledge
Canadian Library Journal, Vol. 39, No. 5, October l982.*

#HvFoerster on the origins of #computational_neuroscience

For reasons that still baffle me, it was the pragmatic American engineers and scientists, not the romantic Europeans, who began to toss anthropomorphic sand into the gear box of evolving notions and ideas. To name two such cases, the computer people began to talk about a machine’s storage system as if it were a computer’s #memory, and the communication engineers began to talk about signals as if they were #information.

Perhaps these were the precursors for the second derailment which, ironically, was the inverse of the first. lt worked as follows. The first phase was #anthropomorphization: mental functions projected into machines. However, we knew how these machines worked because we built them and wrote the programs. Consequently, an appropriate “#mechanomorphization,” the concepts dealing with computer hard- and software were projected back into the workings of the brain and, presto!, we knew how the #mind worked.

Heinz Von Foerster
*To know and to let know - an applied theory of knowledge
Canadian Library Journal, Vol. 39, No. 5, October l982.*

#HvFoerster on the origins of #computational_neuroscience

For reasons that still baffle me, it was the pragmatic American engineers and scientists, not the romantic Europeans, who began to toss anthropomorphic sand into the gear box of evolving notions and ideas. To name two such cases, the computer people began to talk about a machine’s storage system as if it were a computer’s #memory, and the communication engineers began to talk about signals as if they were #information.

Perhaps these were the precursors for the second derailment which, ironically, was the inverse of the first. lt worked as follows. The first phase was #anthropomorphization: mental functions projected into machines. However, we knew how these machines worked because we built them and wrote the programs. Consequently, an appropriate “#mechanomorphization,” the concepts dealing with computer hard- and software were projected back into the workings of the brain and, presto!, we knew how the #mind worked.

Heinz Von Foerster
*To know and to let know - an applied theory of knowledge
Canadian Library Journal, Vol. 39, No. 5, October l982.*