Excellent article by Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie about how to talk about AI to avoid anthropomorphizing (because, yes, words matter!) (and no, AI isn’t conscious, can’t communicate, has no agency) at https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/how-to-talk-about-ai-without-adding-to-the/
I expecially like their list of alternatives:
artificial intelligence → probabilistic automation
hybrid intelligence → augmented human intelligence
image recognition → image labeling
speech recognition → automatic transcription
the model shows bias → the model reflects bias
model mistakes → model errors
chatbots are good at … → chatbots are good for …
hallucination → undesirable output
goal → success condition
prompt → text input
answer → output
chatbot / conversational agent → conversation simulator
ChatGPT assisted students → the students used ChatGPT
revealing the solution → displaying the solution
AI agent → probabilistic, unverified software manipulator
who’s right? → is the machine output correct?
they produce results → the team uses it [the system] to produce results
