programmed
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Researchers found that increasing Menin helped protect cultured hippocampal cells against inflammation and a form of programmed cell death triggered by exposure to the stress hormone corticosterone.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
On the surface, it seems like harmless video game humor, and I’m sure we’ve all had encounters with actual humans that resembled interacting with tautological machines programmed with limited responses.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
Agentic AI, in particular, will be central to software development, Huang said, referring to systems programmed to be autonomous and perform tasks without supervision.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
The idea that you’re kind of programmed by your parents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
Which, of course, was exactly what he was—cutting-edge NPC artificial intelligence, programmed by Halliday himself.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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