Examples of talking machine in a Sentence
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Nothing holds back computer scientists from developing talking machines that pretend to be humans.
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Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
While this work on talking machines was proceeding, so were attempts to build a thinking machine.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
So novel was the talking machine that many people refused to believe in its existence—understandably, since, up to that point in history, sound had been entirely ephemeral.
—Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2019
In the past fifty years, our talking machines have continued to evolve, but none of them have become as authentically malicious as HAL.
—Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
There’s something about talking machines that just sets Mama’s nerves on edge.
—Southern Living, 6 Jan. 2017
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Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
While this work on talking machines was proceeding, so were attempts to build a thinking machine.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
So novel was the talking machine that many people refused to believe in its existence—understandably, since, up to that point in history, sound had been entirely ephemeral.
—Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2019
In the past fifty years, our talking machines have continued to evolve, but none of them have become as authentically malicious as HAL.
—Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
There’s something about talking machines that just sets Mama’s nerves on edge.
—Southern Living, 6 Jan. 2017
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“Talking machine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/talking%20machine. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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