revolutionize

• revolutionise (UK)

From revolution +‎ -ize.^[1]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛv.əˈl(j)uː.ʃəˌnaɪz/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛv.əˈl(j)u.ʃəˌnaɪz/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌɹev.əˈl(j)uː.ʃəˌnɑɪz/

revolutionize (third-person singular simple present revolutionizes, present participle revolutionizing, simple past and past participle revolutionized)

1. (transitive) To radically or significantly change, as in a revolution. [1799^[1]]

   Hyponym: rerevolutionize

   • 1972 May 14, Il Sung Kim, Kim Il Sung Works (Kim Il Sung Works; 27)‎^[1], Pyongyang, Korea: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Talk to the Delegation of the Japan National Association of Socialist Mayors, page 177:

     Teachers are not simply wage earners who teach students, but revolutionaries bringing up the future builders of socialism. For this reason, we are working hard to help teachers acquire advanced science and technology and to revolutionize and working-classize them.

   • 2010 January 22, Stephen Mihm, “Capitalist Chameleon”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     For Joseph Schumpeter, the Austrian-born economist whose writings have acquired a special relevance in the past year or two, this most modern of economic systems “incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one.”

   • 2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America‎^[3], archived from the original on 7 February 2019:

     Another kind of machine learning, called neural networks, is also “revolutionizing” AI, the report said.

   • 2023, Mohak Agarwal, Generative AI for Entrepreneurs in a Hurry‎^[4], Notion Press, →ISBN:

     ChatGPT and reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF) have revolutionized the AI landscape, providing an accessible and reliable platform for AI-enabled applications.