Kyle Mahowald and Anna A. Ivanova / Fast Company
Google’s AI spotlights a human cognitive glitch: mistaking fluent speech for fluent thought – Linguistics helps explain why humans fall into the cognitive trap of thinking that an entity that can use language fluently is sentient, conscious, or intelligent. When you read a sentence like this one, your past experience tells you that its written by a thinking, feeling human. And, in this case, …
