M. Minsky and D. Riecken, A conversation with Marvin Minsky about agents ,' Comm. of the ACM, vol. 37, no.7, July 1994, pp. Minsky, M., and Riecken, D. 1994. A Conversation with Marvin Minsky about Agents . Industrial robots have long been compared to humans.
People use anthropomorphism as a metaphor in order to make the technology understandable.
If a computer can convince a person that it is intelligent it does not make the computer intelligent just able to fool the person into thinking that it is intelligent. But if you help it to become smarter than you are, then you may not be able to trust it not to make better plans for itself than it does for you. Minsky, Marvin, and Doug Riecken. A Conversation with Marvin Minsky About Agents . They claim traditional engineering based software design methods have proved unwieldy in solving these problems.