{"id":2975,"date":"2025-06-12T15:44:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T13:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homo-extensus.ai-book.it\/2025\/06\/12\/does-the-human-machine-interface-pretend-to-be-human-human\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T08:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:58:08","slug":"does-the-human-machine-interface-pretend-to-be-human-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homo-extensus.ai-book.it\/en\/2025\/06\/12\/does-the-human-machine-interface-pretend-to-be-human-human\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the human-machine interface pretend to be human-human?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2975-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/homo-extensus.ai-book.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/729_linterfaccia_uomomacchina_finge_di_essere_uomouomo.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/homo-extensus.ai-book.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/729_linterfaccia_uomomacchina_finge_di_essere_uomouomo.mp3\">https:\/\/homo-extensus.ai-book.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/729_linterfaccia_uomomacchina_finge_di_essere_uomouomo.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<div class=\"text-center\"><div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\" ><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Imitation Game is the most successful Interface Metaphor in general-purpose, conversational AI.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, it conceals a basic contradiction: it is a human-machine interface, which instead disguises itself as a human-human interface.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From an ergonomic point of view, the Imitation Game is part of the tradition of skeumorphic interfaces, which imitate a tool-in Greek skeuos (\u03c3\u03ba\u03b5\u1fe6\u03bf\u03c2), because its shape-in Greek morph\u1e17 (\u03bc\u03bf\u03c1\u03c6\u03ae)-remembers a function. For example, in a personal computer interface, a pencil icon allows us to write, and an eraser icon allows us to erase. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In graphical computer systems in the 1980s, dominated by the so-called &#8220;desk metaphor,&#8221; skeuomorphic design is used for the many icons used in graphical user interfaces: folders, documents, baskets, and so on.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Virtual skeuomorphs can also be auditory, such as the sound of the shutter click made by camera phones when a photo is taken. Or the sound of paper crumpling when a document is trashed. But with the Imitation Game, the interface is about humans themselves: the machine takes the form of humans to simulate their ability to express themselves and reason.  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This step can be extremely dangerous. No one can be fooled by an icon simulating a folder, or a sound simulating a photographic click. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, we all potentially risk being deceived by a voice that is indistinguishable from a human voice, develops lifelike speech, and is emitted from lips that are part of a realistic human face.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The risk particularly affects children, people who are impressionable or unfamiliar with technology, and people with mental disabilities. A protective barrier must be raised with respect to the Imitation Game, taking into account its ability to fuel aberrations on psychological, legal, educational and anthropological levels. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Imitation Game is the most successful Interface Metaphor in general-purpose, conversational AI. However, it conceals a basic contradiction: it is a human-machine interface, which instead disguises itself as a human-human interface. 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