Sentence examples for relatively dumb from inspiring English sources

It is more likely, he believes, that robots will be relatively dumb machines designed for particular tasks.

Instead of semi-dumb terminals being spoon-fed by smart servers, peer-to-peer is about relatively dumb networks connecting powerful desktop computers.Within companies, the case for the survival of the PC is different, but no less compelling.

Mr. Tilden has been arguing with little success for well over a decade that progress in robotics would be much more rapid if researchers concentrated on designing relatively dumb robots rather than devices stuffed with increasingly powerful programmable electronic brains.

The intelligence in the original Internet was meant to reside largely at the end points of the network — the computers — while the specialized routing computers were relatively dumb post offices of various size, mainly confined to reading addresses and transferring packets of data to adjacent systems.

Paul O'Donovan, a principal analyst at Gartner, a technology consultancy based in Stamford, Connecticut, points out that the fastest-growing product in consumer electronics to date is not even a recorder, but the digital video disc (DVD) player a relatively dumb device that can only playback prerecorded material.

"In the old style distribution circuit, typically you would have a problem, and a relatively dumb device would identify the problem and take action, but the action was usually with a meat cleaver instead of a scalpel," said John E. Bryson, chairman and chief executive of Southern California Edison's parent, Edison International.

When we think about intelligent entities, we instinctively model them on our own experience, where the thoughts we have take place through lightning-fast interchanges between billions of neurons inside our brains, while connections to information sources outside our skulls take place via relatively slow, dumb, evocative means like language, vision and empathy.

Not actually dumb but relatively dumber.

"There are a number of ways to be smart about Iran and relatively few ways to be dumb, and the administration has skipped all the ways to be smart".

Even if you're a relatively "good" drunk, you're still far dumber than you are when you're sober.

In 2009 and 2010 new architects Sheppard Robson made "relatively modest changes" which seemed innocuous but in practice dumbed the design down considerably.