centaur
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- noun
- /ˈsɛnˌtɔr/
- Specialized
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centauro
- As the failure of the 1993 Serranazo showed, the state-as-centaur is no longer viable.
- aerial centaur
But first of all, I would say we see examples of Centaur jobs and Centaur tools today already.
- But first of all, I would say we see examples of Centaur jobs and Centaur tools today already.
- This is where a new form of chess started to emerge, sometimes called Cyborg chess or Centaur chess.
Examples
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Here, there is an interesting resonance with the rhetoric through which Marinetti conveys the rise of that futurist composite monster or aerial centaur.
Academic text (2016) -
By the time we'd made our way outside, the windmill, tractor shed, corn crib, and centaur stables were all on fire.
Fiction book (2001) -
Surface damage makes it impossible to determine if another centaur appeared on the bed in Isaac.
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Not an individual centaur, then, but a kind of collective prosthesis.
Academic text (2016) -
I argue that as we move closer to these Centaur relationships and interactions, that what we're going to do is actually free ourselves up to have creative thoughts.
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Man and board are like a centaur riding the waves, so that for a short spell they are indistinguishable, and all three unite with that sense of oneness and identification that man seeks all his waking life (Muirhead, 1962, p. 52).
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Or perhaps, as we have already noted, the futurist erotics of the machine is a disavowal of its fully industrial and commodified nature: the airplane is still a singularity of sorts; the aerial centaur is not a factory cog or a serial consumer.
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In a modern office, a team of workers uses a centaur approach, collaborating with artificial intelligence to enhance their productivity.
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As businesses increasingly rely on technology, the centaur model, where humans and AI work together, is becoming essential for decision-making.
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She utilized a centaur system during her analysis, combining her expertise with software capabilities to achieve better results.
How Autonomous
Surface Forms
Etymology
Centaur is now also used for a human working together with a computer, like the mythic 'half man, half horse' mix. So calling a person and an AI a 'centaur' shows they form a single team that brings together human skill and computer power.