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input

[in-poot] / ˈɪnˌpʊt /




NOUN
intake
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All this is coming at the same time as Anthropic and OpenAI say they are close to developing AI systems that could improve themselves without human input, called “recursive self improvement.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

You could argue that input was worth 10 points.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

Energy is a costly and unique input into economic production.

From MarketWatch Sep. 9, 2026

"We need local knowledge and input to go into shaping developments to improve them and make sure that we get better data centres at the end of it," he said.

From Barron's Sep. 8, 2026

In addition to new playground equipment, they planned to add tennis courts, and thanks to community input, they had decided to dedicate the courts to her father.

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson

It's because these cars are numb to your driver inputs.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

The largest circuit demonstrated in the study contained 24 interconnected bacterial colonies and was designed to add two inputs together.

From Science Daily Sep. 4, 2026

In the new study, the team demonstrated circuits capable of adding two or three inputs and directing a single input toward a selected destination.

From Science Daily Sep. 4, 2026

“We secure critical inputs when we have visibility into customer demand and when doing so enables long-term productive capacity,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

To Monod, diauxie suggested that genes could be regulated by metabolic inputs.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

If the CPA was using tax software, it’s pretty hard to get it wrong — unless he inputted the correct numbers.

From MarketWatch Mar. 27, 2026

Employees who previously inputted orders are now focused on collecting receivables, Singh said.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 25, 2026

They then inputted these charge values into computational models to mathematically predict how strong the electric field would be when a wasp approaches a caterpillar on a plant.

From Science Daily May 24, 2024

Mrs Reid said she was alerted to the BMI error in July 2021 during a phone call with one of the surgery doctors, who suggested her son's weight may have been incorrectly inputted.

From BBC May 9, 2024

Images, data, and simulations are part of the work and part of the shared knowledge, already available in formats that can be inputted for further work or can be technologically tested.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin

Mary Johnson, an independent Social Security and Medicare policy analyst, said asking specific questions can be more helpful than simply inputting a general query when using AI tools.

From MarketWatch Aug. 28, 2026

One of AI’s most significant contributions so far is extracting data from standard common tax forms such as W-2s and 1099s and inputting it into tax returns.

From Barron's Jan. 31, 2026

Galea built on these findings, inputting the layout of The Station club into a computer simulator he created which predicts how fires spread.

From BBC Jan. 17, 2026

People who are immersed in AI often have some surprisingly old-fashioned habits, from scrawling meeting notes on paper to inputting calendar entries manually.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 26, 2025

Only when the series of equations had been sufficiently reduced would she start the process of inputting values and coming up with numbers using the calculating machines.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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