Example Sentences

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As psychology researchers at the University of Kent wrote in 2022, an individual's "subscription to conspiracy beliefs is initially inadvertent, accelerates recursively, then becomes difficult to escape."

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2023

“I just basically chunked up all the files into functions and classes and groups of code, generated summaries of those code chunks and then recursively summarized the file,” Shobrook said.

From New York Times • May 31, 2023

The study also notes the long-term risk of software that recursively improves itself.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 7, 2022

He genuinely believes that A.I. will be able to recursively improve itself until it views humans as obsolete.

From Slate • Jul. 27, 2017

The reason for this is that we know how to combine recursively defined functions into hierarchical structures only in the absence of assignment statements.

From Scientific American • Aug. 23, 2011