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Humans gave sailboats a gender. Anthropomorphization is our default.

• wpietri 4y ago
  Sure, and when there's no possibility of confusion, I'm all for it. It can be lovely and poetic. Here, though, I think it's dangerous.
  • JieJie 4y ago
    I agree with you that there are outcomes that would be less ideal. If it helps, I refer to them as Intelligent Tools. I do prefer the "tool" metaphor (and so does Bing Chat) and I hope that companies like Microsoft rethink their "copilot" and "assistant" metaphors. I don't think they're "dangerous" per se, I think metaphors matter and we should choose the best ones.