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When I read about dialogues with AI, where people try to get life advice, support, and therapy from the algorithm, I'm reminded of this photograph. (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

One of the last posts I read on Reddit was a student in a CompSci class where the professor put a pair of googly eyes on a pencil and said, "I'm Petie the Pencil! I'm not sentient but you think I am because I can say full sentences." The professor then snapped the pencil in half that made the students gasp.

The point was that humans anamorphize things that seem human, assigning them characteristics that make us bond to things that aren't real.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

That or the professor was stronger than everyone thought