primitive
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When he was 16, he took a gap year before college to work at a videogame production company and experimented with primitive forms of AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
The composition’s primitive lyrics seem to place its genesis much earlier, likely around the time of “With The Beatles” or “A Hard Day’s Night.”
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
The researchers concluded that all three belonged to a primitive stem lineage of insects.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
Despite the relatively primitive state of world models, tech luminaries are betting they can take AI to places where LLMs can’t venture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Even in its first primitive incarnation, the scope of the simulation was staggering.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
In our view, these are the computational primitives of the system.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 24, 2025
“Building in primitives meaningfully expands your degrees of freedom,” Jassy wrote to shareholders in the letter released Thursday.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
Two lazy primitives begin an epic journey through the ancient world after they are banished from their village.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2020
She also possesses a world-class array of vintage photographs, along with animal masks, Icelandic primitives, reverse-glass paintings from India, oversize sock monkeys and other, even harder to categorize items.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2011
Now, I suppose you’re going to say, but, Mister Ibis, these people were primitives, they didn’t have radio controls and vitamin pills and jet airplanes.”
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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