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Wardle thinks Hamilton’s hypothesis makes sense and has co-authored a study showing that rhesus monkeys also experience pareidolia—the first evidence of the phenomenon in a nonhuman species.
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Byhannah Richter, science.org, 4 Oct. 2024
The output of this middle period was on par with the complexity of tools produced by nonhuman apes, naive humans and random flaking experiments, which usually took between one and six steps.
—Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 17 June 2024
Furthermore, unlike nonhuman animals, AI systems are already increasingly able to hold extremely realistic conversations, making seemingly thoughtful contributions in realistic timeframes.
—John Werner, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
The conventional wisdom says no, on the ground that understanding irreversibility requires engaging in sophisticated reasoning about the future, a capacity that is likely beyond many nonhuman animals.
—Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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Byhannah Richter, science.org, 4 Oct. 2024
The output of this middle period was on par with the complexity of tools produced by nonhuman apes, naive humans and random flaking experiments, which usually took between one and six steps.
—Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 17 June 2024
Furthermore, unlike nonhuman animals, AI systems are already increasingly able to hold extremely realistic conversations, making seemingly thoughtful contributions in realistic timeframes.
—John Werner, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
The conventional wisdom says no, on the ground that understanding irreversibility requires engaging in sophisticated reasoning about the future, a capacity that is likely beyond many nonhuman animals.
—Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonhuman
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Granted, her actions are not nearly as inhuman as Roddy, the only Slough House member who knows about River’s death, casually disconnecting his computer.Scott Tobias, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2024
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The jihadi embrace of suicide attacks on civilians convinced many Americans, including many policymakers, that the United States was facing an inhuman foe.Monica Duffy Toft, Foreign Affairs, 10 Jan. 2023
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Miso Robotics has a lot riding on its ability to persuade fast-food chains to incorporate Flippy -- a robotic arm that drops fryer baskets into sizzling oil -- into their kitchens.Queenie Wong Los Angeles Times (TNS), arkansasonline.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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This set of efforts is essential to enable a safe and societally stable transition to a more automated future, where cost, precision, and robotic flexibility converge with human well-being.Amir Husain, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Cinematographers Alejandro Chávez and Trevor Roach shoot the underworld where the victims work and live with limited light sources creating a drab, oppressive environment that highlight the subhuman conditions they are subjected to.Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 30 Aug. 2024
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So, yeah, there are Muslim terrorists, but they are also shown as people with lives and interests and not subhuman villains, which, umm, could’ve been worse.Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2024
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“Nonhuman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonhuman. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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