anthropomorphize
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- anthropomorphise (non-Oxford British spelling)
Etymology[edit]
By surface analysis, anthropo- + morph + -ize.
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Verb[edit]
anthropomorphize (third-person singular simple present anthropomorphizes, present participle anthropomorphizing, simple past and past participle anthropomorphized)
- (transitive) To endow with human qualities.
- (transitive) To attribute human-like characteristics to (something that is non-human).
- 2018 June 15, Emma Brockes, “No, Facebook, I won’t be back. I’ve seen the dangers of habitual sharing”, in The Guardian[1]:
- It has been two months since I last checked my feed, during which time Facebook has sent me notifications I didn't sign up for, informing me every time someone posts, and invited me to attend locally organised focus groups. […] Of course, I am anthropomorphising a machine; no one is in charge of all this.
- 2023 February 9, Ted Chiang, “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web”, in The New Yorker[2]:
- I do think that this perspective offers a useful corrective to the tendency to anthropomorphize large-language models, but there is another aspect to the compression analogy that is worth considering.
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attribute human qualities
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to attribute human-like characteristics to something that is non-human
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