artificial life
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of artificial life
First recorded in 1990–95
Example Sentences
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Creating artificial life is a recurring theme in both science and popular literature, where it conjures images of creeping slime creatures with malevolent intentions or super-cute designer pets.
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
The link between these cellular automata and the pursuit of artificial life grew stronger when, more than two decades later, mathematician John Conway designed the Game of Life.
From Scientific American • Apr. 6, 2023
On one hand there is a nine-to-five job you don’t like and a totally artificial life.
From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2022
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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