Using de-anthropomorphized language

How to talk about “AI” without adding to the anthropomorphization

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

The proposed language can be clunky, but maybe that is a good thing.

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