humanlike

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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. 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
Adjective
  • For most of them, humanoid-specific patents make up less than 10% of their total portfolio.
    John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • Ken Goldberg, a UC Berkeley engineering professor with 40 years of experience in the field, expressed skepticism about the capabilities of humanoid robots in home cleaning.
    ABC News, ABC News, 31 July 2026
Adjective
  • The piece urges critical inquiry into such claims, emphasizing that human oversight, not AI's inherent deviousness, can be a sizable contributor.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The metrics that would reveal the human cost have not been built yet.
    Dan Schawbel, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Over ten million years ago, long before the human species existed, our hominid ancestors adapted to metabolize alcohol.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026
  • 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.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Humanlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/humanlike. Accessed 5 Aug. 2026.

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