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Humans have a powerful tendency to ascribe human characteristics to inanimate objects, including computers. It's a kind of variant of the Pathetic Fallacy[1], e
by User23 4y ago
Humans have a powerful tendency to ascribe human characteristics to inanimate objects, including computers. It's a kind of variant of the Pathetic Fallacy[1], except for artifacts instead of natural objects. The intelligence of an artificial intelligence is as real as the characters in our dreams. It's a construct of our own consciousnesses. That doesn't mean it should be discounted though. Our consciousnesses can do a lot and finding artificial ways to stimulate them is powerful to say the least.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathetic_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathetic_fallacy
- winnit 4y agoAgreed. William Burroughs conducted cut-up experiments in the 20th century, where he would take disparate texts and splice them together. The surprising result was how often they recombined into new meanings. One of his motivations was to stimulate his creativity through accidental quasi-random inputs. I am content with seeing reading in a similar light; texts carefully written but carelessly read - like in abstract art, we are usually happy to let the text recombine in ways which say more about ourselves!