"And if you need to predict human height in the near future to design a piece of equipment," Gordon says that by and large, "you could use today's data and feel fairly confident."

“如果你需要预测人类不久后的身高来设计一个设备的话，”戈登概括说，“你可以相当自信地使用当今的数据。”

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Behaviorism asserts that it wants to predict human behavior.

如果行为主义者声称他们将能预测人类的行为。

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“It’s helping us to predict human behaviour, as opposed to predicting flow,” he says.

和预测水流相反，这种方式真的帮助我们预测出人类行为。

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Ever since age 14, the 65-year-old inventor of everything from music synthesizers to speech recognition systems has aimed to create a true artificial intelligence, even going so far as to predict that machines would match human intelligence by 2029.

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Dr Michael Detmar, from the Massachussetts General Hospital Cutaneous Biology Research Center, said that measuring the number of these vessels in human tumours could help doctors predict the likelihood of spread outside the breast.

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What seems to be attractive in science is no longer its being a high intellectual activity, a continuous human search to represent and predict nature, but for what it can produce in terms of controlling, and therefore in terms of power, of mankind on his sorroundings and his fellows.

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