The next time you call someone a chicken, think again – animal rights activists want the insult banned. Campaign group PETA has written to the Oxford English Dictionary, demanding it scrap the definition of chicken as a cowardly or faint–hearted person. In a letter to chief editor Michael Proffitt, the organisation claims the description is unfair, inaccurate and harmful to the bird's reputation. PETA argues that linking chickens with cowardice promotes speciesism – the belief that animals are inferior to humans. According to the group, the stereotype also helps justify the treatment of chickens in the food industry.

Horrifying next twist in the Alexander brothers case: MAUREEN CALLAHAN exposes an unthinkable perversion that's been hiding in plain sight Alexander brothers' alleged HIGH SCHOOL gang rape video: Classmates speak out on sick'taking turns' footage... as creepy unseen photos emerge Model Cindy Crawford, 60, mocked for her'out of touch' morning routine: 'Nothing about this is normal' Kentucky mother and daughter turn down $26.5MILLION to sell their farms to secretive tech giant that wants to build data center there Live Nation executives mocked'stupid' concert-goers in emails where they bragged about how to best rip them off: '$60 for closer grass' NFL superstar Xavier Worthy spills all on Travis Kelce, the Chiefs' struggles... and having Taylor Swift as his No 1 fan Heartbreaking video shows very elderly DoorDash driver shuffle down customer's driveway with coffee order because he is too poor to retire Amber Valletta, 52, was a '90s Vogue model who made movies with Sandra Bullock and Kate Hudson, see her now Nancy Mace throws herself into Iran warzone as she goes rogue on Middle East rescue mission: 'I AM that person' Hidden toxins in kids' treats EXPOSED: Health guru Jillian Michaels' sit-down with Casey DeSantis reveals dangers lurking in popular foods READ MORE: People who don't like animals are likely to have dark personalities Dictionary entries for the word'wool' must be urgently updated to include plant-based alternatives, woke scientists say. For centuries, the term has been used to describe the soft, curly hair forming the fleecy coat of sheep and other animals. It even features prominently in nursery rhymes such as'Baa Baa Black Sheep', sung by children across the UK. But the Oxford English Dictionary's definition must be modernised to include plant-powered varieties that'leave sheep in peace', campaigners say. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) argues that wool derived from linen, hemp and bamboo has existed for centuries.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Oxford University Press has named "rizz″ as its word of the year, highlighting the popularity of a term used by Generation Z to describe someone's ability to attract or seduce another person. It topped "Swiftie" (an enthusiastic fan of Taylor Swift), "situationship" (an informal romantic or sexual relationship) and "prompt" (an instruction given to an artificial intelligence program) in the annual decision by experts at the publisher of the multivolume Oxford English Dictionary. An Oxford English Dictionary is shown at the headquarters of the Associated Press in New York on Aug. 29, 2010. Oxford University Press has named "rizz″ as its word of the year, highlighting the popularity of a term used by Generation Z to describe someone's ability to attract or seduce another person.

Conceptual engineering (CE) is a philosophical methodology concerned with the assessment and improvement of concepts [1]. Koch, Löhr and Pinder have surveyed recent work on the theory of CE, discussing different theories defining the targets of CE, i.e., "what conceptual engineers are (or should be) trying to engineer" [2]. In one such theory, Nado proposes as targets classification procedures, defined as abstract'recipes' which sort entities "into an'in'-group and an'out'-group" [3]. Our work builds on Nado's idea by defining a method for implementing classification procedures consistent with this definition. A large language model (LLM) is a probabilistic model trained on a natural language corpus that, given a sequence of tokens from a vocabulary occurring in the corpus, generates a continuation of the input sequence.

A widely acknowledged shortcoming of WordNet is that it lacks a distinction between word meanings which are systematically related (polysemy), and those which are coincidental (homonymy). Several previous works have attempted to fill this gap, by inferring this information using computational methods. We revisit this task, and exploit recent advances in language modelling to synthesise homonymy annotation for Princeton WordNet. Previous approaches treat the problem using clustering methods; by contrast, our method works by linking WordNet to the Oxford English Dictionary, which contains the information we need. To perform this alignment, we pair definitions based on their proximity in an embedding space produced by a Transformer model. Despite the simplicity of this approach, our best model attains an F1 of .97 on an evaluation set that we annotate. The outcome of our work is a high-quality homonymy annotation layer for Princeton WordNet, which we release.

Online translation tools have helped us learn new languages, communicate across linguistic borders, and view foreign websites in our native tongue. But the artificial intelligence (AI) behind them is far from perfect, often replicating rather than rejecting the biases that exist within a language or a society. Such tools are especially vulnerable to gender stereotyping because some languages (such as English) don't tend to gender nouns, while others (such as German) do. When translating from English to German, translation tools have to decide which gender to assign English words like "cleaner." Overwhelmingly, the tools conform to the stereotype, opting for the feminine word in German.

Online translation tools have helped us learn new languages, communicate across linguistic borders, and view foreign websites in our native tongue. But the artificial intelligence (AI) behind them is far from perfect, often replicating rather than rejecting the biases that exist within a language or a society. Such tools are especially vulnerable to gender stereotyping, because some languages (such as English) don't tend to gender nouns, while others (such as German) do. When translating from English to German, translation tools have to decide which gender to assign English words like "cleaner". Overwhelmingly, the tools conform to the stereotype, opting for the feminine word in German.

When it comes to any kind of Artificial Intelligence device, swear words are usually off the menu. But one Reddit user has revealed a way to get Apple's Siri to say the F word. Taking to the r/Apple subreddit, user thatwasabaddecision wrote: 'Ask Siri to define the word "mother". When she asks you: "Do you wanna hear the next one?" F bomb: A Reddit user has taken to the r/Apple subreddit to reveal a way to get Apple's Siri to say the F word Mother's the word: Using the Oxford English dictionary, which offers several interpretations of the word'mother', Siri also includes the'vulger slang' word'motherf*cker' Redditor Hahahahahaimsofunny was the first to respond with the answer, and wrote: 'Motherf**ker!' Apple appears to have programmed Siri using the Oxford English dictionary, which offers several interpretations of the word'mother'.

Quidditch - the game played by Harry Potter - is now magically appearing in the Oxford Dictionaries, joining that other Potter term "muggle". But what other words dreamed up by author JK Rowling are on the cusp of gaining official recognition? Potterhead... Wrock... Bellatrix... three terms that muggles may not understand. And if you need to be told what a muggle is in the first place, then you can at least consult a dictionary on that one. The BBC has learned that another small list of words associated with the Harry Potter book series are on the Oxford University Press watchlist, which decides on the words likely to gain inclusion in its dictionaries.