Apparently, the wealthy are tired of having to reach into their own pockets to feed the influence machine that creates the policies that benefit them.

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The combination of advertising-supported content and machine learning creates the potential for the kind of highly targetable environment that marketers have been dreaming of.

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The machine creates a safe radioactive solution which can be injected into patients before a scan.

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When you pop in a title the machine scans it for information and creates an on-screen catalog, searchable by the artist, title and type of disc.

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Music scholar and composer David Cope has built a machine which creates music of such profound artistic quality that it can even fool the experts.

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Machine learning distills the raw information about the behavior of each individual customer and creates associations that are accurate, but general enough that a campaign based on those associations has a good chance of success with a substantial group of people.

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This creates a sort of government staffing perpetual motion machine, with agencies adding more and more headcount just to satisfy the demands of other government agencies.

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