ELIZA Effect

Brain Lenses

ELIZA Effect

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ELIZA Effect

Colin Wright

Oct 11, 2022

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Brain Lenses

ELIZA Effect

Anthropomorphism refers to the human tendency to infer human-like traits, motivations, and emotions in non-human things. We might curse the weather for ruining our picnic, for instance, as if the concept of "weather" were an entity with consciousness that intentionally pushed rainclouds into our neighborhood at the exact moment we stepped outside…

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