[notes] Crowd-Sourcing: Metaphors for LLMs and AI

Help me make this essay as robust as it can be!

Posting this as a form of crowd-sourcing for an essay I’m working on —

What are the main “metaphors” you see deployed around LLMs and AI?

Here’s my list so far: intelligence, learning, training, thinking, reasoning, chat, agent, assistant, model, generative, skill, context, vision, memory, personality, constitution, engineering, prompt, alignment, collaboration, knowledge

(Note that “metaphor” doesn’t — necessarily — mean it’s wrong.)

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