Arcas

American  

[ahr-kuhs] / ˈɑr kəs /

noun

Classical Mythology.

1. a son of Zeus and Callisto, the ancestor of the Arcadians who was set among the stars with his mother as the Little Bear and the Great Bear respectively.

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Example Sentences

“It would need to be a learned skill,” says Blaise Agüera y Arcas, a vice president at Google Research.

From Scientific American • May 11, 2023

Google vice president Blaise Agüera y Arcas, who, according to the Post article, dismissed Lemoine’s claims of LaMDA’s sentience, wrote a recent article in the Economist describing LaMDA as an “artificial cerebral cortex.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2022

But Google vice president Blaise Aguera y Arcas and Jen Gennai, head of Responsible Innovation, looked into his claims and dismissed them.

From Washington Post • Jun. 11, 2022

Based on such exchanges, Agüera y Arcas argued that "statistics do amount to understanding, in any falsifiable sense."

From Salon • May 22, 2022

Later, her son Arcas was placed beside her and called the Lesser Bear.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton