One potential remedy is to create a face-to-virtual-face interaction with a helpful, friendly looking, online sales assistant in the hope that, seeing a human-like figure who responds in a human manner, the customer will forge a relationship with the online business.
Lord Pannick argued that there was no danger of a successful challenge under human rights law, because the European Court of Human Rights precedent was firmly against the idea that people had a human right to a particular kind of religious marriage - so if a marriage was refused for religious reasons, the courts would uphold that decision.
"A human embryo starts out as a single fertilised cell and rapidly divides into a widely complex series of cells that become a human being, " explained Dr McCallion.
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So as far as radio is concerned a potato looks more like a human than a mannekin does.
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In the story, we take control of Kerrigan, former Queen of Blades, but now just a human with a Zerg-inspired hairdo.
The reasons such efforts drive up the costs include: A human needs a return ticket, while a robot can go one way.
"As a human and a journalist, it is unbearable to witness this crime, " said Sasan Aghai, an Iranian who works for the Sobh-e Azadi newspaper.
Pressure had mounted on the DoJ from smaller providers, particularly Sprint which would stand as a human in a world of giants if the deal went through.
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Research conducted by Cisco, which has experimented with telepresence robots in house, found that employees were, oddly, more honest and open with a human-operated robot than with a human colleague.
Like a human, a chess computer would analyse the consequences of a move, but it would do better than even a grandmaster, who would be unlikely to see beyond eight moves ahead.
Northeastern University researchers made Nexi the key ingredient of an experiment where subjects were asked to play a Prisoner's Dilemma-style game immediately after a conversation, whether it was with a human or a machine.
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Because the sun never dips below the horizon during the Arctic summer, GROVER can work at any time during the day and should be able to work longer and gather more data than a human on a snowmobile.
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The virus that is contagious between humans does not yet exist (or it may just have come into being inside a young person in China who contacted both vH7N9 and a human influenza A virus to which they were not immune).
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The zoo veterinarian explained that a gorilla's heart is similar to a human heart, and that the zoo badly needed a human cardiologist to help complete their care.
Building a robot that can stand and walk on two legs like a human is challenging enough -- but what about a robot that swims like a human?
They look at your work, your life work, who you are as a human being and the spirit of who you are as a human being.
This is a good thing: however delicious running the grain through a pig before it goes into a human it is an inefficient method of getting calories into a human.
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By looking for overlaps between these fragments and fitting the resulting contiguous sequences to reference sequences from humans and Neanderthals the team were able to come up with a DNA sequence for most of the mitochondrion, and it was nothing like one that would have been expected from either a modern human or a Neanderthal.
In a phrase first coined by the Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori, get too human and they fall into the "Uncanny Valley", that point on a graph that plots acceptance against how human like a robot is where acceptance falls through the floor.
Many people here believe in the cycle of birth and rebirth - that a human can be born again as an animal, or an animal as a human.
It provides a human-like experience of being known by some other, but it is only a human-ish experience of such empathy.
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We never ask a human to work a for us, once that machine is developed, that does the job better than any human every could.
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You can't make cream or butter cause it's just a human udder, a natural mammalian sight.
Boisselier, a French biochemist, said she hopes to clone a human being within a year.
They contain the blueprints for how a human being, a plant or a bacterium, looks and functions.
With our current understanding producing a human clone would involve great human suffering for a questionable end.
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