AI finds its way to '' word of the year'' at Oxford, Cambridge and Merriam-Webster.

Many would agree that 2023 in the world of technology was dominated by artificial intelligence. Your popular dictionaries have noted this in their “word of the year” lists, and notably all the AI-related words they highlight are, in fact, existing words that have been appropriated and regurgitated with new meanings.
How conversant are you with these words:

• Hallucinate

• Authentic

• Rizz

• Prompt

Did you think of AI when you saw these words?

If you did then you are very familiar with Artificial intelligence.

The words hallucinate, authentic, rizz, and prompt are known for taking human context but this year, these existing words have been appropriated and regurgitated with new meanings.

Cambridge’s word ‘‘hallucinate’’ is now popularly known for the ability of generative AI models like ChatGpt to invent anything from dates to people rather than admit its inability to know the word

Merriam-Webster's ‘‘authentic’’ did not exactly get a new definition but an important connotation. This was mainly due to the rise of artificial intelligence and its impact on deep fake videos; this has increasingly blurred the lines between ‘‘real and fake’’ ads and videos, especially with celebrity faces attached to them, misleading the public.

Oxford’s word of the year ‘‘prompt’’a formerly a versatile but unused word now has a popular meaning related to the human side of generative AI. It now describes an instruction given to an artificial intelligence, program, or algorithm to determine the content it creates.

If you were wondering what Oxford’s actual word of the year is, it’s “rizz,” a playful shorthand for “charisma” and something that AI arguably lacks entirely.

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