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Fabricio Teixeira
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“The reality is that animal behavior doesn’t always correlate to human behavior. Software and AI don’t “behave” at all, but rather function in accordance with their code. Humans, as social animals, find it easy to interpret certain outputs as “behaviors.” Humanizing the tech we use makes it a little bit more understandable.

But anthropomorphizing things can go wrong. Rather than making complex systems like AI more understandable, anthropomorphizing tech can actually contribute to further mystification and misunderstanding.”

Our human habit of anthropomorphizing everything
By Daley Wilhelm

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