Almost 99% of movies about AI depict them as humanoid robots. This is because the majority of people can't even imagine that something can be intelligent without having a human form!
"What has been affirmed without proof can also be denied without proof."(Euclid)
In fact there are no ais nearly as intelligent as a human. So yes if you give it a human form you can fool some pple for some time theyre as intelligent as us.
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Yeah, it's the old problem of expecting to get wet in a pool filled with plastic models of water molecules.
This is why these scams can happen so easily. If it's just 'cold data', people don't know how to grasp the concept or what to think about it. A human face makes it instantly look like it must know what it's doing.
It's a bit like putting glasses on a thug to make him look like a nerd. You know he's not a nerd, I know he's a nerd, but the stupid people will fall for it, and think he's now a nerd.
Appearances are more important than people care to admit.. it's kind of sad that most people can't see through a pretty face, as even shown in this movie - the nerd KNOWS a lot, but yet doubts his knowledge and falls for the stupidest things just because of a pretty face. Sigh.