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I imagined a vitrine of the pigments used to achieve those “Gainsborough blues”—indigo, Prussian blue, ultramarine, azurite.

From The Wall Street Journal

Artificial intelligence is now routinely used to combine and interpret different kinds of information, including text, images, audio, and video.

From Science Daily

In total, 725 patients from 15 medical institutions across Japan contributed more than 11,000 images used to train and test the AI model.

From Science Daily

“It used to be a point of contention with my dad,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal

We used to have loads of sleepovers and she’d always want to have them at my house rather than hers.

From Literature