machine
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Humans should want more for themselves than a binary good-bad, or the answers to all of life’s questions spat out by a machine.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
But look, there’s also loads of Ye Olde charm, beautiful beaches, pristine forests and a brand-new cappuccino machine!
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
It was also seen as a sign of the ability of Miliband in particular, but this government in general, to drive its agenda through the civil service machine.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
That the AI agent runs on a virtual machine, which houses it with a person’s data, is another advantage, according to Anmuth.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
We were given desks near each other and were each given a calculating machine.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Some researchers worried about AI safety also cite enfeeblement as a risk, a “WALL-E” future in which humans gradually cede control to machines and eventually become unable to define, or even understand, our destiny.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
In a landmark trial in Los Angeles this year, tech giants were accused of creating "addiction machines".
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
"We are facing a transition to a world with incredibly intelligent machines, and we need to ensure that transition works out well for humanity," Pachocki wrote in the latest blog post.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
These, Langer explained, were not the commercial machines that had once been available for purchase.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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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 foundation of the sound capture is still better than anything else that you would find today. The products that were put into use and the way that it was machined … it’s unmatched.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 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 looks like a towering sculpture of lighted glass and metal, like a machined piece of art.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
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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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