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Progress in AI relies on the availability and analysis of large sets of data on human activity, online and offline, to distinguish patterns of behavior that can be used to guide machine behavior and cognition.
Nevertheless, in advance of November’s presidential election, it is important to distinguish the forces that have shaped Barack Obama’s foreign policy, and to assess his handling of them.
Democracy remains a worthy and widespread goal, but it is important to distinguish the goal from the means used to attain it.
But how can we distinguish good banks from bad?
But Europe must nonetheless recognize the need to distinguish clearly between partners, competitors, and opponents, and to formulate a more sophisticated and articulated policy towards Russia, in particular.
Here we must distinguish between national and international terrorism.
It is time to stop looking for these non-existent benefits, and to distinguish among different categories of capital flows.
Nonetheless, in terms of the likely strength of the convergence process that globalization has facilitated, it is important to distinguish between Latin America and Asia, and, within Asia, to distinguish China from the rest of the continent.
An undifferentiated approach towards political Islamism that fails to distinguish between those who reject violence and those who resort to terror only facilitates the extremists’ work, for they emerge as champions of causes that do not reflect their true goals.
Putin understands instinctively that Russia needs elements of democracy, if only to distinguish the new Russia from the old, and to let the odd gust of healthy fresh air in.
But the Smith-Ricardo theory has a key limitation: it does not distinguish among a country’s citizens, and therefore cannot address the question of income distribution within a country.
In modern economies, people distinguish between generic words, which refer to concepts or a set of individual things (a certain kind of fruit, for example), and trademarks, which refer to specific goods or services around which someone has built value.
Latin America’s Corruption ChallengeCOPENHAGEN -- It is difficult to distinguish the consequences from the causes of the corruption that bedevils many Latin American and Caribbean nations.
The IMF does not have an adequate framework for handling the massive defaults that could easily attend a huge surge in lending, much less the political will to distinguish between countries that are facing genuine short-term liquidity problems and countries that are actually facing insolvency problems.
The US has been quick to distinguish between commercial and military espionage.
The question is how to distinguish between the two groups.
For both retail and institutional investors who distinguish between individual countries’ and sectors’ prospects, emerging markets will remain attractive long-term investment opportunities.
It is crucial to distinguish inequality in productivity among firms from unequal distribution of income within firms.
Though conceived in early Muslim history as a means of spreading God’s word, Muslim scholars today distinguish between two kinds of jihad – one being an internal struggle against temptation, and the other a physical conflict against an aggressor who threatens the survival or the fundamental rights of a Muslim community.
As evidence tilts the balance away from widespread PSA testing, a new screening test or biomarker is urgently needed that can distinguish effectively between potentially life-threatening prostate cancers and less dangerous forms.
Republican Congressmen from districts with higher levels of income inequality were more likely to vote for legislation to expand housing credit to the poor in the years before the crisis (almost all Democrats voted for such legislation, making it hard to distinguish their motives).
Notably, the compact should count commercial as well as financial debts, and government budgets should distinguish between investments that pay and current spending.
Amnesty International’s appeal was met by a storm of opposition – some of it from people who were evidently failing to distinguish between the sex industry as a whole and the human trafficking that, in many countries, is a tragic part of it.
A fraction of the population will always be willing buyers of fake news; but the majority will learn to distinguish between trustworthy and unreliable sources.
European Socialists are also finding it hard to distinguish themselves in foreign affairs.
Then, Shah Ismail – the first Shah and the founder of the Safavid Dynasty – began a brutal policy of forcing Persian Muslims to become Shia, in order to distinguish his iteration of Persia’s empire from the more powerful Constantinople-based and fervently Sunni Ottoman caliphate.
Contemporary management theory tends to distinguish between leadership and management, and places greater emphasis on leaders.
This explains an important fact about popular perception: most people in the host countries do not distinguish between economic migrants and refugees.
But their leaders must distinguish between those that are aspirations and those that are realizable, and they must begin to explain to their citizens this distinction.
In a world in which geography is a diminishing barrier to business, can cooperatives sufficiently distinguish themselves as a viable alternative model?
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