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encode

[en-kohd] / ɛnˈkoʊd /


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Some AI companies are now trying to encode human values into their products.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

By modifying an open model’s weights—which encode knowledge and behavior—anyone can tear down its safety guardrails.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Cohen found MOTS-c by combing through the 97% of human DNA that doesn’t encode for genes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

"Our approach enabled us to isolate specific genetic and immune factors, then translate those signatures to human brain scans, showing that different connectivity patterns encode different mechanistic pathways underlying autism."

From Science Daily ● Jun. 3, 2026

The whole fabric of honey bee society depends on communication— on an innate ability to send and receive messages, to encode and decode information.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

“But what helps our scientists is that it encodes information very, very broadly.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

"This metric geometrically encodes the perceived color distance -- that is, how different two colors appear to an observer."

From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 2026

Understanding how an animal brain encodes memories and the emotional responses they evoke could lead to better cognitive therapies for post-traumatic stress disorder.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2025

But when the researchers looked at Arhgap36’s genetic sequence in orange cats, they didn’t find any mutations in the DNA that encodes the Arhgap36 protein.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 27, 2024

The fact that the genome also encodes genes to repair damage to the genome was discovered by several geneticists, including Evelyn Witkin and Steve Elledge.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Those mutation targets are encoded into mRNA and manufactured into a vaccine—a process that takes about six weeks from the date of the biopsy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

"The significance extends far beyond phages – it suggests that genome language models are beginning to learn the design principles encoded by evolution, opening the door to AI-assisted genome writing."

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

More specifically, quantum information becomes encoded within long lived "vibrations" of the torsion field that exist inside the remnant's geometry.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

To demonstrate the chip's capabilities, the researchers successfully encoded and processed two separate images at the same time.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 2, 2026

A one-time pad contained randomly generated sets of numbers, organized in groups of five, that were added mathematically to the encoded, numbered messages.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

There are also philosophical challenges: before encoding human values into bots, AI firms have to first choose which values they actually want.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

Accordingly, he discerns that much of what passes for “AI alignment” is, in practice, a small number of San Francisco labs encoding their idiosyncratic values into systems that now shape billions of lives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

This identified a three-gene control hub, LypABC, encoding bacterial proteins.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2026

In contrast, encoding information into ceramic materials could preserve it for hundreds or even thousands of years.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 29, 2026

Power was broadcasting in the clear, rather than encoding his message.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin




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