In AI discussions on YouTube and on TV, you often find people who attribute human-like characteristics, emotions and intentions to non-human AI's. This is often referred to as the ELISA effect, named after a program for the 1960s ELISA. The simple program basically paraded back a user's responses to them and asked them basic questions. Despite its rudimentary design, ELISA managed to convince some users that it truly understood their emotions and concerns. Now, ELISA and modern AI's process inputs and generate outputs based on predetermined rules. It's us humans that attribute human-like characteristics, emotions and intentions to these non-human entities. This is called anthropomorphism and it's rooted in our ancestors' mythologies where they personified natural elements and animals. So when someone tells you that an AI can think, it's most likely that they're experiencing an ELISA effect.