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/ˈbɹeɪnˌdɛd/ · adjective
(medicine, not comparable) Having an irreversible loss of brain function and cessation of brain activity..
An employee of the mayor's office was declared brain-dead on Sunday morning after she and another woman were struck by a hit-and-run driver while crossing Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, the authorities said.
"AI has been brain-dead since the 1970s," said AI guru Marvin Minsky in a recent speech at Boston University. Minsky co-founded the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1959 with John McCarthy.
"What makes you different from all the other brain-deads that come through here?"
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Brain-dead means (medicine, not comparable) Having an irreversible loss of brain function and cessation of brain activity..
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An employee of the mayor's office was declared brain-dead on Sunday morning after she and another woman were struck by a hit-and-run driver while crossing Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, the authorities said.
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