Word: ais
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...That self-imposed severance pa ckage is just one portion of what the current government says was a scourge of corruption in which Bucaram and his aides cheated Ecuador out of untold millions during his six months in office. On Friday, the Supreme Court charged Bucaram and four top ai des with corruption, embezzlement, nepotism and influence peddling in a case involving the alleged mishandling of $88 million in a government security fund. Welfare Minister Gustavo Baquero claims an audit of his ministry's books shows $83 milli on unaccounted for by his predecessor, Bucaram's brother Adolfo...
...ai-ai: (township slang) methylated spirits or absolute alcohol, taken as a drink or used for lacing drinks...
...never seen AI Gore that fired up before," Hanlon said. "Students will definitely turn out for Kerry...
...Ford includes his own nicely rancid vaudeville about Richard Nixon to the tune of No Substitute, the hilariously solemn Nixon-Lodge campaign song for 1960. Disney artists contributed to a crude, perky 1952 TV commercial for Eisenhower ("I like Ike, you like Ike, everybody likes Ike/ Let Ad-l-ai go the other way,/ We'll take Ike to Washington...
That isn't what AI set out to achieve 40 years ago. But artificial intelligence tends to be a moving target; once a computer can do something--like play tic-tac-toe or even chess--that behavior no longer seems to require much thought. If anything unites AI's increasingly diverse strategies for building machines that think, however, it's that they all require us to stretch our notions of what human thought really is. "We need to be prepared," warns Ray, "for an intelligence that is very different from...