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{{Def|Magic||n|{{image|Paul Daniels|jpg|Just to manage your expectations, you aren’t going to like this a lot.}}}}
{{Def|Magic||n|{{image|Paul Daniels|jpg|Just to manage your expectations, you aren’t going to like this a lot.}}}}{{quote|An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them. — {{author|Ambrose Bierce}}, {{br|The Devil’s Dictionary}}}}
:An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them. — {{author|Ambrose Bierce}}, {{br|The Devil’s Dictionary}}
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Not [[artificial intelligence]], [[machine learning]] or [[natural language processing]], however much they might seem like it to primitive or unimaginative minds. Another kind of NLP — neuro-linguistic programming — ''may'' be, at least in the hands of Derren Brown, though I suspect a bit of amateur dramatics and camera trickery going on there too.
Not [[artificial intelligence]], [[machine learning]] or [[natural language processing]], however much they might seem like it to primitive or unimaginative minds. Another kind of NLP — neuro-linguistic programming — ''may'' be, at least in the hands of Derren Brown, though I suspect a bit of amateur dramatics and camera trickery going on there too.