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Recent Examples of humanlike
The story feels eerily prescient as AI continues to infiltrate everyday life, with some humans beginning to form emotional bonds with the humanlike programs in their life.
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Rebecca Ford,
Vanity Fair,
18 June 2026
LLMs are so seemingly humanlike, people envision computers replacing all customer service agents, summarizing or answering questions about a collection of thousands of documents, taking on the wholesale role of a data scientist or even making a company’s executive decisions.
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Eric Siegel,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
Film, vibration, sound and light converge around a faceless, humanlike figure moving through shifting states of existence.
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Melinda Sheckells,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Feb. 2026
Through teleoperation, the robot demonstrates precise, humanlike hand control in a variety of manipulation tasks.
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IEEE Spectrum,
6 Feb. 2026
The company claims Moya can replicate human micro-expressions, a feature that places it among the most humanlike robots currently under development.
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Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Feb. 2026
Still, more information about the lower body is needed to learn exactly where the species fits into the evolution of humanlike posture and gait.
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K. R. Callaway,
Scientific American,
23 Jan. 2026
To some, Aschenbrenner is a rare genius who saw the moment—the coming of humanlike artificial general intelligence, China’s accelerating AI race, and the vast fortunes awaiting those who move first—more clearly than anyone else.
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Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
8 Oct. 2025
Rebecca Ford,
Vanity Fair,
18 June 2026
LLMs are so seemingly humanlike, people envision computers replacing all customer service agents, summarizing or answering questions about a collection of thousands of documents, taking on the wholesale role of a data scientist or even making a company’s executive decisions.
—
Eric Siegel,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
Film, vibration, sound and light converge around a faceless, humanlike figure moving through shifting states of existence.
—
Melinda Sheckells,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Feb. 2026
Through teleoperation, the robot demonstrates precise, humanlike hand control in a variety of manipulation tasks.
—
IEEE Spectrum,
6 Feb. 2026
The company claims Moya can replicate human micro-expressions, a feature that places it among the most humanlike robots currently under development.
—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Feb. 2026
Still, more information about the lower body is needed to learn exactly where the species fits into the evolution of humanlike posture and gait.
—
K. R. Callaway,
Scientific American,
23 Jan. 2026
To some, Aschenbrenner is a rare genius who saw the moment—the coming of humanlike artificial general intelligence, China’s accelerating AI race, and the vast fortunes awaiting those who move first—more clearly than anyone else.
—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
8 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for humanlike
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While official details of the participating humanoid robots remain limited, videos circulating online suggest models from Booster Robotics and Unitree Robotics taking part in the challenge.
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This public display of continuous operation is becoming the new standard for validating humanoid robot capabilities.
Adjective
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Several of the deaths were attributed to a variety of human activities, such as boat strikes.
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Amodei predicts that, over the next five to ten years, AI will achieve, among other things, the reliable prevention and treatment of nearly all natural infectious disease, the elimination of most cancer, the prevention of Alzheimer’s and a doubling of the human lifespan.
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Over ten million years ago, long before the human species existed, our hominid ancestors adapted to metabolize alcohol.
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The team used laser ablation mass spectrometry (LA-MS), a technique that uses direct micro-scale sampling to provide high-precision elemental and isotope analyses of solid materials, to scan Neanderthal molars and other hominid fossils.
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“Humanlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/humanlike. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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