proving ground

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With millions now flowing through endorsement deals and revenue-sharing with colleges, more families see high school as a high-stakes proving ground.

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The mine was restarted as a proving ground for Rio Tinto’s RIO 2.74%increase; green up pointing triangle new method of unlocking low-grade copper deposits.

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Hospitals are a proving ground for what AI can and can’t do.

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In August 2022, Google introduced a chatbot model with a range of conversational abilities, making it available to a limited number of people through an app called AI Test Kitchen, a proving ground of sorts.

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Big hospital systems have become the proving ground for widespread AI adoption, testing what the technology can do, but also revealing—sometimes via alarming mishaps—where it falls flat.

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