intellectual

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And "if we get super intelligent AI, any intellectual job it will be able to do," he said, meaning that "even if new jobs are created, AI will be a cheaper way to do them".

From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026

Equally, the need for professors and instructors engendered by the college boom created its own class of intellectuals and intellectual hangers-on.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026

Some two decades-plus after its premiere “Proof” feels forward-looking in putting a woman of intellectual brilliance—despite her emotional fragility and introverted personality—firmly at its center.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

The loo will come with a fan and exhaust pipe to channel odours out of the car, according to the filing on China's intellectual property administration seen by the BBC.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

Alongside these we can put the mechanical reproduction of text and images by means of the printing press, which transformed the communication of knowledge and established new types of intellectual community.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton