{"id":512456,"date":"2026-04-04T11:42:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/512456\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:42:22","slug":"ten-metaphors-for-ai-the-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/512456\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten metaphors for AI | The Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">9. \ufeffAI is\u2026 an enthusiastic \ufeffintern\ufeff. This is a folk metaphor rather than a coined one, in the sense that many people who use LLMs have described the experience as \u201clike having a young intern who is smart, keen, industrious\ufeff and free!\u201d (Most of them add that, \u201cyou have to check their work, though\u201d). In a way, this gives the metaphor a different kind of cultural authority. The other metaphors are all attributable coinages, usually from academics or polemicists with a specific argument to make. \ufeff\u201cThe intern\ufeff\u201d has emerged organically from everyday usage, which suggests it\u2019s capturing something that people are reaching for intuitively when they try to explain their actual experience of using these tools. But, of course, it also anthropomorphises!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"9. \ufeffAI is\u2026 an enthusiastic \ufeffintern\ufeff. This is a folk metaphor rather than a coined one, in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-512456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}