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Recent Examples of humanlike
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
So scientists are still searching for measures of humanlike intelligence that can’t be hacked.
—Matthew Hutson, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Sep. 2025
Once upon a time, scholars thought that human evolution was a march of progress in which our forebears evolved in linear fashion from an apelike ancestor to a series of increasingly humanlike forms.
—Kate Wong, Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2025
Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
So scientists are still searching for measures of humanlike intelligence that can’t be hacked.
—Matthew Hutson, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Sep. 2025
Once upon a time, scholars thought that human evolution was a march of progress in which our forebears evolved in linear fashion from an apelike ancestor to a series of increasingly humanlike forms.
—Kate Wong, Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for humanlike
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Humanoid robot Similar to Tesla’s push into humanoid robots, Xpeng on Wednesday announced its own version, the second-generation Iron robot.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
5 Nov. 2025
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Engineers in the United States are making serious efforts to ensure that humanoid robots master self-balancing and offer precision in conducting multiple types of tasks.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Nov. 2025
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During the demonstration, Archdeacon, dressed in a suit and tie, showed his fellow surgeons how to implant the plates and screws of the Pro into a model of human pelvic bones.—
Elizabeth B. Kim,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
12 Nov. 2025
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No human journalist was harmed in this experiment.—
CA Earthquake Bot,
Sacbee.com,
12 Nov. 2025
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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.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
17 Oct. 2025
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With each progressive step, artifacts become more central to hominid existence.—
Harmon Siegel,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Humanlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/humanlike. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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