Dictionary.com provides a bunch of AI-related phrases

In one other signal generative AI has pierced via mass consciousness, Dictionary.com has added generative AI, GPT, and LLM to its checklist of phrases.

It additionally expanded the definition of hallucinate within the context of generative AI, the place it means to provide false info opposite to the intent of the consumer and current the knowledge as if it have been true.

The positioning, which additionally runs Thesaurus.com (aka my greatest writing buddy), introduced 566 new entries and 348 new definitions for the autumn of 2023 “because the dictionary works to maintain tempo with the ever-changing English language.” 

Different new phrases or expanded definitions embrace nepo child (a star with a well-known mum or dad), jawn (one thing or somebody that doesn’t want a particular phrase), biohacking (strategic organic experimentation particularly on one’s self), algo (pc algorithm), and knowledge air pollution (the introduction of falsehood, irrelevance, bias, and sensationalism right into a supply of data, ensuing within the dilution of important info). 

Phrases from different languages, like hanbok (Korean conventional costume), jolabokaflod (an Icelandic custom the place books are given as Christmas presents), and kakeibo (a Japanese time period for a system sustaining a family funds) have been additionally added.

The corporate behind Dictionary.com didn’t simply add generative AI to its thesaurus. It additionally runs an AI-powered writing device known as Grammar Coach.

Dictionary.com and different dictionaries ceaselessly replace phrase lists as sure phrases, phrases, and meanings enter the favored lexicon or change. Which phrases they select so as to add typically current a snapshot of popular culture for that interval. Final yr, the location added shadow ban, evaluation bombing, and pickleball. 

In style tech phrases typically make it into dictionaries; metaverse, for instance, nearly received the Oxford English Dictionary’s 2022 “Phrase of the 12 months.” Too dangerous it misplaced out to goblin mode. 

Now, if solely the spellcheck on Google Docs adopted swimsuit.