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Interesting, at what point do we let AI contribute new words to the lexicon, Shakespeare managed 15...

• pilsetnieks 7y ago
  I thought it was a misconception that Shakespeare added so much new words - him being a prolific and very popular writer, and with much of his corpus surviving to this day, his works get cited whenever there's a "first use" mentioned somewhere. The fact that one of his plays is the oldest written source where a word was seen for the first time in written form doesn't mean that it wasn't in common use before that; indeed it could mean the opposite – because the spectators of his plays should be able to understand what the characters are speaking, not leave befuddled in need of translation.
  • tudorw 7y ago
    Sure, it's contentious, what's not contentious is that our lexicon grows over time, how would an AI go about inventing a new word?
    • ncmncm 7y ago
      The same ways we do: by scissors-and paste with parts of other words. Most if our English words are small alterations of proto-indo-european words.