Cambridge Dictionary named the word of the year. It’s a verb and it’s related to AI
The Cambridge English Dictionary has named the verb “hallucinate” as the word of the year, which has acquired a new meaning with the development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, according to the website.
It is noted that we are talking about a certain meaning of this word, which is associated with artificial intelligence. The dictionary defines this term as a product of AI “false information”.
“These models are becoming more and more impressive, and some are even able to pass exams in law and medicine! But don’t expect them to get it right when you ask them a question: there have been some notable cases where AI models simply “came up with something” that didn’t correspond to reality at all. We call these errors hallucinations or confabulations. In general, the accuracy and quality of the results you get from AI models depend on the quantity and quality of the data they are trained on.”
The choice of such a word of the year was due to the fact that its new meaning clearly shows why the topic of artificial intelligence causes so much controversy, the authors pointed out.
In honor of the word of the year, this dictionary posted a post dedicated to artificial intelligence terms that have recently entered the English language: chatbot, generative AI, etc.
Earlier, the British English dictionary Collins Dictionary recognized “AI” as the word of the year.
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