Because it unnecessarily anthropomorphizes it to create the illusion that there is intelligence behind it (in the traditional sense, where the intelligence is s

Because it unnecessarily anthropomorphizes it to create the illusion that there is intelligence behind it (in the traditional sense, where the intelligence is synonymous with being aware of its existence and embodied) But I personally don't have a big problem with the term in this context. Our industry have been using misleading terms since the beginning to describe things that somewhat resemble whatever it's called after. Like literally from the start, "bootstrapping"