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Is there a new trend to give AI/tech products common women's names, (Alexa, Macie, Ada, Clara, Julia, etc)? The only male named tech product I can think of real
by sudosteph 3y ago
Is there a new trend to give AI/tech products common women's names, (Alexa, Macie, Ada, Clara, Julia, etc)? The only male named tech product I can think of really is Watson, and that's old hat by now. It honestly kind of weirds me out and I feel for people who have to share their names with a product. At least Siri and Cortana seem pretty unique in that respect. Fwiw, I'm sure plenty of products with traditionally male names exist, I just can't recall encountering many at work or casually.
- FireInsight 3y agoI think it's some weird manifestation of women being culturally more often in jobs as assistants to men and men in the leading roles. That and wanting the AI to seem approachable and human.
- swyx 3y agothere's also Jarvis and Alfred, on the male side, but yeah, it's a known cognitive bias to implicitly associate subservient things with female names. not much to do except be aware and try to correct for it. i think there's like 3 AI assistants named Samantha. obviously inspired by the movie, but does show a lack of imagination.
- gs17 3y agoELIZA probably started it back in the 60s.
- ISV_Damocles 3y agoWell, a prior project we worked on was named Alan[1]. The choice was somewhat arbitrary: https://marsha.ai https://marsha.ai was available and we thought it was a fine name so here we are. [1]: https://alan-lang.org https://alan-lang.org
- bestcoder69 3y agoHm, well, ChatGPT is a boy.
- FireInsight 3y ago> As an artificial intelligence language model, I don't have a gender or personal identity. I'm just a program designed to assist and provide information to users like you. How can I help you today?
- quickthrower2 3y agoBard (neutral but makes me think of Shakespeare), Claude?