1706: (Art)ificial Aug 16, 2019

The word 'artificial' often has connotations towards 'insincere' or 'unnatural', but like 'artifice', this is not what it originally meant. Initially, it just meant 'hand-crafted', although certain phrases like 'artificial intelligence' use 'artificial' this way, since 'art' used to mean 'craft; skill'. This is even exhibited in the German word for 'artificial intelligence' is 'künstliche Intelligenz'; in German 'Kunst' is 'art' so while not a loan word, the pattern is still the same.

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