American Enterprise Institute

Using Large Language Models to Understand Ordinary Meanings in Legal Texts: Some Early Judicial and Scholarly Experiments

Courts and scholars are experimenting with artificial intelligence tools to help establish the ordinary meaning of words and phrases in statutes and contracts. A tone of cautious optimism—one ...
CNN

‘Vibe coding’ named Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year

“Vibe coding,” a form of software development that involves turning natural language into computer code by using artificial intelligence (AI), has been named Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year for ...
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Merriam-Webster "announces" new AI as a prank

The marketing campaign for the recently-announced twelfth edition of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary is a little… scary. While a dictionary technically can be considered a "large language ...
The New York Times

The Slow Decline of Urban Dictionary

As slang finds its way into lexical institutions, experts ponder its place on the internet. By Julia Carpenter There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when ...
The New York Times

How A.I. and Social Media Contribute to ‘Brain Rot’

A.I. search tools, chatbots and social media are associated with lower cognitive performance, studies say. What to do? Credit...Derek Abella Supported by By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s ...