machine
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The second is that a machine can demonstrate intelligence by successfully imitating a human in conversation, an idea that later became known as the Turing test.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Resisting the attention economy isn’t a human vs. machine battle, but a David and Goliath one.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
"Aldi is a brilliant single-purpose machine, while Walmart is a money machine that happens to sell groceries cheaply. That gap is the whole ballgame," Sheldon said.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
The letter echoed something Altman himself had said back in 2015: that “superhuman machine intelligence is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
“There’s nothing to talk about,” she said, watching the change fall through the machine.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
"Our performance skills in thousands of domains cannot be communicated to machines," he explains.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Other machines, meanwhile, have become more dangerous by getting faster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Mark Lipacis and Vedvati Shrotre, analysts at Evercore ISI, wrote in a note on Sunday that “the fundamental backdrop remains strong” for companies that provide the machines required to build chips.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Running washing machines and dishwashers with full loads.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
He had a gift for building gadgets and fixing machines.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
The monitor had been designed with screws in the back that had 25 concentric circles machined into their flat heads to make them sparkle as light passed over them.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
Still, in our endless chase of machined refinement, I think we’re missing the value of human irregularity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
The carbon fibre hull had titanium domes fitted on each end, but he said the metal had been machined incorrectly.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2025
Among the group's precision machined elements are flexures -- spring-like devices, often made from parallel beams, that can flex and stretch with nanometer precision.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2024
It lay heavily in her hands, the crystal face gleaming, the golden body exquisitely machined.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
This matters for Proxima which uses a very expensive type of steel in its magnets, which needs machining to a high level accuracy.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
According to a biography of Woods published in 1887, he attended school until about the age of 10, learning basic reading, writing and arithmetic, before leaving to apprentice in blacksmithing and machining.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026
Boeing traced the problem to a machining error.
From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026
Patterson argued that the court should allow ATF to regulate only firearms that have been completed with “critical machining operations.”
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2024
“So I guess you’re an expert at welding and machining now,” he said.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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