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information processing

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noun

  1. computing the combined processing of numerical data, graphics, text, etc

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If it emerges from certain kinds of information processing, then advanced AI systems might someday meet the criteria.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

A central goal of the team's work is content agnostic information processing.

From Science Daily • Jan. 28, 2026

Paulsen takes the level of new era economic spending from the GDP accounts, defining it as investment spending on information processing equipment and intellectual property products.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 2, 2026

We’re talking specifically about subjective experience: Are these systems limited to mechanical information processing, or do they have an internal point of view, something it’s “like” to be them?

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 2025

That’s a fivefold increase in the size of the group, but a twentyfold increase in the amount of information processing needed to “know” the other members of the group.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

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