What's in a name? A robot by any other name smells just as sweet

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Nov 04, 2023

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What is it with stupid naming conventions, initially for computers, then for printers, and robots and now for every LLM/LMM that comes along!?!?! Drama LLAMAs!

Actually, I did my Masters thesis on what the naming of robots told us about our perception of robot agency, and in joke humor was one of the big takeaways. We name our robots to show that we are…

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