Oh yes I'm a sucker. It gets me every time. And look now, I am sympathetic to the authors wanting to get their work published and I am well aware that the anth

Oh yes I'm a sucker. It gets me every time. And look now, I am sympathetic to the authors wanting to get their work published and I am well aware that the anthropomorphic language is "hot" right now. And my guess (prayer?) is that the authors of the paper are able to compartmentalize the difference between anthropomorphic language and actual.. y'know... HUMAN personality traits. The problem is that humans are very, very bad at understanding probability, and I am seeing my fellow engineers (and the general public) falling victim to this sort of fantastical thinking. The problem is that it's holding us back from building better systems and making actual good use of the technology. And gosh darnit, it just really gets my gizzard!