artificial life
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of artificial life
First recorded in 1990–95
Example Sentences
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What are the building blocks that Lou and his colleagues in this field will use to create viral vaccines and artificial life?
From Science Daily • Oct. 5, 2023
Three adults were tucked into hospital beds, still and apparently asleep, with ventilators and other machines of artificial life doing the work that their bodies couldn’t do.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2023
Attention to this case isn’t surprising: A century of science fiction should be enough to demonstrate that we’re fascinated by the prospect of creating true artificial life.
From Slate • Jul. 25, 2022
Here’s hoping that we will find a recipe for artificial life that will allow us to imagine something far more intelligent than the natural life we encountered so far.
From Scientific American • Sep. 26, 2021
The artificial life force animating them seemed to fail if pressed too far...at least in some of them.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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