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electronic brain

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noun

  1. an electronic computer.


Etymology

Origin of electronic brain

First recorded in 1940–45

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Still, AI can’t have novel insights, nor can it generate new information that isn’t already fed into its electronic brain.

From Scientific American Sep. 28, 2023

Instead of designing one big microprocessor with vast numbers of tiny transistors, they conceived of creating one from smaller chips that would be packaged tightly together to work like one electronic brain.

From New York Times May 11, 2023

The math, even when aided by an electronic brain, could only just keep pace with the weather.

From The New Yorker Jun. 24, 2019

Happily a simple, almost dumb kind of AWD was chosen, a system used in the 993 era car, utilizing a viscous coupling unit rather than a sophisticated electronic brain.

From The Verge Feb. 2, 2016

By means of the electronic brain, he made the visitor do a number of maneuvers in response to orders.

From Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]

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