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Beating out other shortlisted neologisms in common parlance including nepo baby, deinfluencing, debanking, and canon event—a formative occurrence in an individual’s life and identity, Collins Dictionary announces AI as the Word of the Year for 2023—see previously. The abbreviation for artificial intelligence, it describes the process of modelling human mental functions, especially the multilayered architecture underlying deep learning neural networks and large reinforcement and inference schema that draw from the sum of human knowledge, which has seen an exponential increase in usage in the past twelve months.