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The King James Version of the bible has approximately 800,000 words, a goodly number but still able to be handsomely bound between leather covers and easily carried.

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The Canadian Encyclopedia, described as the biggest publishing project in Canadian history, was first released in 1985 in three volumes, each containing a million words. The online version now has four million words. The Britannica is more than ten times as big at 44 million words.

All of that work, decades of scholarly labour, can be vacuumed up in minutes by the apparatus of artificial intelligence. The PaLM 2, Google’s large language model, has 340 billion parameters with which to analyze and organize texts.

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