Thursday, June 12, 2025

AI for Logophiles

Whenever I have asked AI to define a term, I typically get a fairly good definition.  Sometimes it's a bit long, sometimes a bit short, but an experienced user can refine these results down to what is needed.  This is to be expected.

Here we are using AI simply as a newfangled dictionary.  And there's no real magic in that.

That is to say, we have a word and we need a definition.  But for me, I sometimes have a definition and need a word.  Sometimes I know that the word exists, and sometimes I have no idea if there is such a term.

So I ask Grok:  Is there a term for....

Sometimes it spits out the exact word I'm looking for immediately.  Sometimes this also takes a bit of refinement.  But it always works.

So the next time there is a word on the tip-of-your-tongue, just tell AI what you know, and ask:  Is there a word for that?
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