“In a 1944 study, 2 psychologists had participants watch a simple animation of two triangles and a circle moving around one another. They then asked some viewers what kind of “person” each of the shapes was. People described the shapes using words like “aggressive,” “quarrelsome,” “valiant,” “defiant,” “timid,” and “meek,” even though they knew that they’d been watching lifeless lines on a screen.”
https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/the-lifelike-illusions-of-ai
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