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I'm not sure if you are aware as to the extent certain processes and functions are being anthropomorphized.

These systems are not "intelligent" if you follow the dictionary definition. Hence the question posed to get a better understanding of how it is being used in this context.

They also do not "extract intent". There is for sure some intent behind your input to the service. What follows is a predictive text that uses your input, together with a LLM trained on a corpus with similar relations, that ultimately gives you a series of words.

That isn't to say a service like this cannot be useful. But I'm often wondering if the people who rely on these, and are particularly enthused by them, are actually aware that the terms they used are in fact anthropomorphized. I start by giving the benefit of the doubt, but it rarely lasts. 'Reasoning', 'agent', 'skill' 'hallucinate', 'know', 'think', 'train', 'learn', 'understand', 'harness', 'attention', 'context', 'prompt'.



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