Raibert says that 25 years after founding the company, it's starting to "turn a corner to think about making a product and finding some narrower applications".
Why it matters: Although experts say we are still decades away from machines that truly think like humans, narrower applications of AI are already having an impact on society.
That improves incentives, which is a good idea, but it has a narrow application.
Outside the courthouse, the foreman, Mr. Zaccar, criticized what he called the overly narrow application of the law.
"What it means is that Central Bank is going to receive a narrow application going forward, and not an expansive one".
Oedipus, again, is a political leader who mistakenly believes that justice can be attained and suffering relieved by the narrow application of reason and will alone.
But amnesia is one of those uncommon syndromes that makes a handy metaphor for much more familiar experiences, for instance -- in its narrowest application -- the temporary blackouts that can result from overindulgence in alcohol or drugs.
Karen Petrou of Federal Financial Analytics in Washington fears that the American regulators' narrow application will allow some quite big American banks to side-step realistic capital charges, by using the old Basel 1 loopholes.
This narrow application of the law drew strong protests from clean-water advocates in the House, including Henry Waxman of California, Raúl Grijalva of Arizona and James Oberstar of Minnesota, who is trying to tighten the act to make sure that all the waters of the United States are automatically protected.
