VentureBeat May 4, 2024
If you feel a sudden urge to smile when you see this rock, you’re in good company.
As humans, we often irrationally describe human-like behaviors to objects with some, but not all, characteristics (also known as anthropomorphism) — and we’re seeing this occur more and more with AI.
In some instances, anthropomorphism looks like saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ when interacting with a chat bot or praising generative AI when the output matches your expectations.
But etiquette aside, the real challenge here is when you see AI ‘reason’ with a simple task (like summarizing this article) then expect it to effectively perform the same on an anthology of complex scientific articles. Or, when you see a model...