Well done, Rob. Your reading is consistent with mine. After Mollick opens the door to anthropomorphization, the middle section of the text contains a long series of dangers about overreliance--a process arguably facilitated by anthropomorphization. That constellation of ideas seems pretty clear to me. I find your argumentation very effective where you analyze what Mollick is actually doing when he is creating his own copywriting entities. Well done!!! I'd love to see some work being done on how we resist anthropomorphization in our writing and our classrooms. If you are looking for a place to explore such ideas, consider my Substack as a possible platform with a somewhat larger built-in audience.
Thanks so much, Nick. Really appreciate the support. I'm working on a longer piece on the ways that using words like "attention" "training" and of course "intelligence" without carefully attending to their context leads us toward anthropomorphizing capabilities of machines. I'm taking William James (who else?) as my point of departure. I'll share a draft when I get it in better shape and we can chat about collaborating.
Excellent. That sounds like a good approach. Focusing on specific words with a theorist in tow. And who else? I am imagining a James Does AI book down the line. 😋
Well done, Rob. Your reading is consistent with mine. After Mollick opens the door to anthropomorphization, the middle section of the text contains a long series of dangers about overreliance--a process arguably facilitated by anthropomorphization. That constellation of ideas seems pretty clear to me. I find your argumentation very effective where you analyze what Mollick is actually doing when he is creating his own copywriting entities. Well done!!! I'd love to see some work being done on how we resist anthropomorphization in our writing and our classrooms. If you are looking for a place to explore such ideas, consider my Substack as a possible platform with a somewhat larger built-in audience.
Thanks so much, Nick. Really appreciate the support. I'm working on a longer piece on the ways that using words like "attention" "training" and of course "intelligence" without carefully attending to their context leads us toward anthropomorphizing capabilities of machines. I'm taking William James (who else?) as my point of departure. I'll share a draft when I get it in better shape and we can chat about collaborating.
Excellent. That sounds like a good approach. Focusing on specific words with a theorist in tow. And who else? I am imagining a James Does AI book down the line. 😋