generalize

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Mormann adds: "The ability of these neuronal groups to link spontaneously allows us to generalize information while preserving the specific details of individual events."

From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026

“The problem with current transformer-based models is that they need a lot of data, and they don’t generalize outside….of what they have seen.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025

AI models may perform well on the data they’re trained on, but “really the proof of the value of it is, does it generalize to an external population?” he noted.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 11, 2025

And economics teaches us not to generalize data trends when the “rules of the game” change.

From Barron's • Oct. 22, 2025

If inventions are as idiosyncratic and unpredictable as the disk seems to suggest, then efforts to generalize about the history of technology may be doomed from the outset.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond