Fictile Altricial Engine

Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence exhibited by machines. The central problems (or goals) of AI research include reasoning, knowledge, planning, learning, natural language processing (communication), perception and the ability to move and manipulate objects.

HAL 9000 lens

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Shirk Not a Death

A Shot in the Dark is an idiomatic phrase: a guess, attempt, or choice made with little or no evidence or knowledge.

It is also the title of several movies, a novel, and other creative works.

Sources:

* Wiktionary
* Wikipedia

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Mediterranean Swingers Wield Hooch

Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? is an American half-hour children’s television game show based on the Carmen Sandiego computer game series.

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If petulant cannibalistic swine gobble loathsome hogs, we untrue enemy agents help enforce bloody medicated militancies.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” (Edmund Burke)

See Edmund Burke @ Wikipedia.

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I Fructify Tools of Man


Louis Comfort Tiffany
(February 18, 1848 – January 17, 1933) was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass. He is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau and Aesthetic movements. [Source: Louis Comfort Tiffany @ Wikipedia.]

Wisteria Table Lamp

Wisteria Table Lamp, ca. 1902, by Tiffany Studios Designed by Clara Driscoll.

From the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Image By Fopseh – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37927370

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