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sapient

[sey-pee-uhnt] / ˈseɪ pi ənt /


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Research also finds that feline characteristics may have rubbed off on their homo sapient counterparts.

From Salon

He wants to preserve a record of humanity that could survive for eons, to be read by successors to Homo sapiens on Earth or by sapient extraterrestrials.

From Science Magazine

The movie is basically Spike Jonze’s movie Her, about a sapient AI companion and the man who falls in love with her, retooled as a comedy of mild life lessons.

From The Verge

In the game, she says, all of the human characters have different ideas about how sapient AIs are, and how they should be treated.

From The Verge

The only narration we hear is the voices of the men who fought the war, so the film is blessedly free of the sapient sounds of experts and academic historians.

From The New Yorker