Phil Nolan at Noema:
In popular culture, AI is depicted as alternately a friend, slave, murderer, master or companion — from the malicious “Entity” in “Mission Impossible” films to the alluring voice of a lover in “Her.” But it is a singular artificial intelligence — a compelling “other.”
But what if each of these personas existed simultaneously? After all, we don’t live in a world with just one AI model. There are now dozens of widely used models and hundreds of less common ones. Indeed, our world is already crowded with numerous artificial intelligences, each with its own distinct personality and motivations.
Humans have always anthropomorphized animals, automobiles and ships. Some writers have argued it’s wrong to anthropomorphize AI, since software doesn’t think or feel like we do. But our tendency to anthropomorphize AI might be hardwired into our brains. Instead of fighting it, we should embrace it so that we can better understand and work with an emerging technology that is increasingly likely to showcase personality characteristics.
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