I heard some professor put googly eyes on a pencil and waved it at his class saying "HI! I'm Tim the pencil! I love helping children with their homework but my favorite is drawing pictures!" Then, without warning, he snapped the pencil in half. 1/2
This is the first time I wished there was a bookmark feature here.
NOOO TIM
When half his college students gasped, he said "THAT'S where all this AI hype comes from. We're not good at programming consciousness. But we're GREAT at imagining non-concious things are people." 2/2
The whole time I was reading this tweet, I just kept thinking, "He killed Clippy." That weird little paper clip (yes, I know that's not the same as a pencil) used to get on my nerves until I stopped seeing him anymore. Regardless, it was another example of trying to humanize an object.
Anthropomorphizing bias!