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Make AI More AI
The contrarian principle that gives the episode its title and its argument against humanizing AI.
How it works
- 1Stop optimizing tools and robots to mimic humans; humanlike is not the same as useful.
- 2The creepiness of humanoid robots is a design failure, not an intelligence failure.
- 3Ask what your tool would do if freed from human imitation.
Hear it on the podcast
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