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How about “tool”?

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I like tool.

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your comment is spot on, thank you! I was just working on an issue for the future with a fairly descriptive title: "Tools or peers? Impacts of anthropomorphism level and social role on emotional attachment and disclosure tendency towards intelligent agents". I'll leave the link here, I hope it will be interesting! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563222002370

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I'm not suprised and, clearly, the examples of Assistant, Master, Partner between humans matters because we can change those perceptions between humans too. The challenge with AI is that when we anthromoporphize, we tend to attribute greater intelligence in the technology than it can support and that can lead us to error.

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Michael, what you say is really interesting. Some studies are focusing precisely on this: under what conditions do people perceive humans as more 'suitable' for certain tasks than the algorithm and vice versa, despite having the same performance? This comment of yours will certainly inspire me for future issues. Thank you!

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So interesting to learn about the 3 relationship types and how they apply to AI-based systems. Nice explanation and graph of the Uncanny Valley!

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If you don't have a relationship with it you can just consider never dating. There's something very exhilarating about being celibate and resisting all temptation.

How would a minimalist approach ai and AI tools do you suppose?

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