What did Cambridge Dictionary choose as its “word of the year”?
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🗓️ 16 November 2023
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Summary
The “word of the year” is an apt one for 2023 and speaks rather well to the state of our culture. In fact, Cambridge Dictionary stated that their word of the year “reminds us that humans still need to bring their critical thinking” into play. In today’s Daily Article, Dr. Jim Denison argues that such critical thinking skills are unlikely to be popular in a “post-truth” culture that measures facts by feelings and moral standards by personal opinion. But Christians must apply their critical thinking and spiritual insight to today’s news if we truly want to see change in the world.
Author: Jim Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | Good day and welcome to the Daily Article podcast for Thursday, November the 16th, |
| 0:07.4 | 2020. I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, |
| 0:14.7 | Dr. Jim Denison. The world watched as Israeli Defense Forces personnel entered Al-Shifa |
| 0:20.6 | Hospital in Gaza City yesterday, |
| 0:22.9 | where they reported finding an operational command center belonging to Hamas. |
| 0:27.7 | They realized a video of some of the material they discovered, including automatic weapons, grenades, |
| 0:33.5 | ammunition, and flack jackets. |
| 0:35.8 | In other headline news, the U.S. Senate passed a continuing resolution last night that will fund the government through early next year. |
| 0:43.4 | And U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping met for the first time in a year, |
| 0:50.0 | agreeing to restore military communications and take steps to further curb fentanyl production. |
| 0:55.8 | Meanwhile, here's some news you may have missed. |
| 0:58.5 | Cambridge Dictionary declared hallucinate as its word of the year for 2023. |
| 1:03.5 | The reason has to do with AI, artificial intelligence, which, quote unquote, hallucinates, |
| 1:10.5 | also known as confabulating, when its tools |
| 1:13.6 | produce false information. The dictionary publishing manager noted, quote, the fact that AIs can |
| 1:20.2 | hallucinate reminds us that humans still need to bring their critical thinking to use of these tools, |
| 1:26.7 | end quote. And I would suggest to the rest of life too. |
| 1:30.3 | Here are some examples. |
| 1:32.3 | Sperm from 39 men killed in Israel's war with Hamas has been extracted from their bodies |
| 1:38.3 | to be used by their families for future fertilization. |
| 1:41.3 | I'm sure this is comforting to those families, but I must ask, what other |
| 1:45.6 | genetic materials could be harvested from deceased persons? Who would own this material? For what |
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