Sentence examples for illusion of human from inspiring English sources

Goostman can maintain the illusion of human conversation for longer than ELIZA, and its lexicon expands beyond psychiatry and family conflict.

Shakespeare's uncanniest power, to create the illusion of human lives, owes much to the creator of the Wife of Bath, the Pardoner and their fellow pilgrims to Canterbury.

All social media provide an illusion of human intimacy, which might not be as satisfying as the real thing but is so much more convenient.

In all three works, the audience member is eventually made aware of the mechanical trickery behind the illusion of human connection; of being on a factory line of elicited responses.

As we moderns become more isolated — more occupied with our virtual lives, more distracted by a greater flow of information and stimulation — the emotional comfort food that the rules provide and the illusion of human connection by way of stories become all the more alluring.

But for much of its intermissionless running time "The Deer House" strikes wearyingly prosaic notes, as we are treated to long, important-sounding speeches about life ("Life is always destruction") and the illusion of human agency ("No one writes their own story") and rather more obscure topics ("All that is left to the seer is the wheeze").

His art was heavily influenced by the upheavals of late-19th-century Europe: the rise of nationalism and liberalism, and the scientific discoveries that both explained the mysteries of the world and destroyed illusions of human centrality.

Much ink was spilled in the first few centuries of Christianity, trying to refute the "Arian heresy," which said that Jesus just looked human, or had the illusion of being human.

A few metres away, a similar work gives the illusion of a human form behind a white sheet blowing in the wind (though there is nothing behind the sheet).

Some glacial regions have a striking feature known as ablated snow hummocks called nieves penitentes or Büsserschnee (literally, "penitent snow")—that give the illusion of kneeling human figures, sometimes two or three feet high; especially noticeable in the early morning, they are formed by the alternation of strong sunlight and rapid evaporation during the day and severe cold at night.

Importantly, you don't need advanced artificial intelligence, capable of passing the Turing test, to give the illusion of a human mind; psychological research has found that we are primed to anthropomorphise almost anything that vaguely resembles one of us, so there are a few simple design principles that can take advantage of this habit.