Why Do We Want Our Machines to Behave Like Us?

Machines are a means to an end. We are end unto ourselves.

5 min readMar 17

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Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have been getting a lot of press. A software program designed to produce art using a few prompts from the user won a digital art competition in Colorado last year, creating quite a buzz. Then the latest version of ChatGTP came along with its…

Craig Axford

Written by Craig Axford

M.A. in Environment and Management and undergraduate degrees in Anthropology & Environmental Studies. Living in Moab, Utah. A generalist, not a specialist.

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