“As our daily lives involve ever more sophisticated computers, we will find that ascribing little thoughts to machines will be increasingly useful in understanding how to get the most good out of them” but “we must be careful not to ascribe properties to a machine that the particular machine doesn’t have”

This is Jessica. Maybe one of the biggest crimes of academic computer science (besides routinely ignoring prior work and making up social science to suit our needs) is our tolerance for abuse of language. We take technical things and inject … Continue reading → …