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In the meter stick analogy, amplifying the signal makes the amoeba appear larger so that even coarse measurement markings can capture it accurately.

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Hatakeyama compares this to an updated version of Liebig's famous barrel analogy, in which a plant's growth is limited by its shortest stave, representing the scarcest resource.

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Given AI’s broad applications, the more apt analogy might be the decadeslong U.S. competition with the Soviet Union to build computers for defense.

The most frequent analogy analysts draw with the current bonanza in all things AI-related is the dot-com boom and bust of the late 1990s, early 2000s.

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Bank of America’s global rates team published a report that looked back to the most obvious analogy for a comparison: the dot-com bubble and the dot-com crash of 2000-02.

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