By A. Dru Kristenev ——Bio and Archives--May 19, 2024

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Man has a need and a will to create, imitating God's grand Creation, though never being able to attain that divine standard. Artificial intelligence exemplifies that endeavor to create.

Going forward, it's fascinating to see how rapidly artificial intelligence is being given a facelift to look and sound more and more like its inventors.

For over a century, science fiction has depicted mechanical inventions that emulate attributes of their inventors, dubbing them robots and, as the 20th century progressed, adding 'humanoid' to the description.

With the exponential development of AI Large Language Models in the year and a half since ChatGPT was unveiled, stress has been placed on making interactions more amenable to users. That means adding human attributes to voices and appearances of the robotic devices to lessen apprehension on the part of the user. The purpose is to make users feel comfortable in the discourse and more apt to accept the interactions as routine.

Why humanize AI at all? Because humanity is the model, not the digital entities humans have invented. Human is what AI aspires to be but cannot achieve once it reaches self-awareness, as creators of AI devices expect it will. AI’s engineers have also haughtily asserted that it will overshadow humanity in intellect to the point of disparaging their own kind as deficient and........

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