completely agree. people say a classic chess engine is "thinking" when it goes deeper into the search tree, but nobody is confused about that. This colloquial l

completely agree. people say a classic chess engine is "thinking" when it goes deeper into the search tree, but nobody is confused about that. This colloquial language doesn't bother me so much. But there really are people who think they are talking to something more than that. Like within a conversation with today's consumer product, they sincerely believe that an actual being is instantiated who has goals and intentions and talks to them.