Sophy

¹ American  

[soh-fee, sof-ee] / ˈsoʊ fi, ˈsɒf i /

Also Sophi

noun

(sometimes lowercase)

PLURAL

Sophies

1. any of the Safavid rulers of Persia: used as a title.

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-sophy ² American  

1. a combining form occurring in loanwords from Greek (philosophy; theosophy ); on this model used, with the meaning “science of,” in the formation of compound words.

   anthroposophy.

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-sophy ¹ British  

combining form

1. indicating knowledge or an intellectual system

   philosophy

   theosophy

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Sophy ² British  

/ ˈsəʊfɪ /

noun

1. (formerly) a title of the Persian monarchs

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Other Word Forms

• -sophic combining form

Etymology

Origin of Sophy¹

First recorded in 1530–40; probably < Turkish sofi, from Persian ṣūfī Sufi ( def. ), by association with Safawī “a member of the Safavid ( def. ) dynasty”

Origin of -sophy²

< Greek -sophia, combining form of sophía skill, wisdom; -y ³

Example Sentences

She told Sky News' Sophy Ridge On Sunday programme: "Being an MP is absolutely a full-time job, it's not just a full-time job, it's a whole lifetime commitment and our constituents need us to be fully focused on that."

From BBC

But this Corvette driver is not being controlled by a human — it’s GT Sophy, a powerful artificial intelligence agent built by PlayStation-maker Sony.

From Seattle Times

Its research paper introducing Sophy last year made it on the cover of the prestigious science journal Nature, which said it could potentially have effects on other applications such as drones and self-driving vehicles.

From Seattle Times

Peter Wurman, director of Sony AI America and project lead on GT Sophy, said it takes about two weeks for AI agents to train on 20 PlayStations.

From Seattle Times

Visit an artificial intelligence laboratory at universities and companies like Sony, Google, Meta, Microsoft and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and it’s not unusual to find AI agents like Sophy racing cars, slinging angry birds at pigs, fighting epic interstellar battles or helping human gamers build new Minecraft worlds — all part of the job description for computer systems trying to learn how to get smarter in games.

From Seattle Times