The Emergency Spanish Foundation (FundéuRAE), supported by the EFE Agency and the Spanish Royal Academy In 2022, the title of “Word of the Year” into complex phrases “artificial intelligence“.
This Thursday, they announced their decision on a structure that has been in the academic lexicon since 1992, defined as “the scientific discipline concerned with creating computer programs.” perform operations similar to those performed by the human mindsuch as learning or logical reasoning.
As the FundéuRAE explains, the reasons for his choice are “his significant presence media as in these last twelve months, social discussion“Due to the various advances made in this field and the resulting ethical implications,” such as the possible replacement of certain professionals after it has been applied in certain fields. “Data analysis, cybersecurity, finance or linguistics are some of the fields that benefit from artificial intelligence. ceased to be a technology reserved for experts. accompany citizens in their daily lives“Adds justification in the press release.
From a linguistic point of view, FundéuRAE has chosen this structure as its own. word of the year ‘for the doubts your post raises’. In fact, one of the implied challenges of artificial intelligence, according to their description, is “teaching machines to use Spanish correctly and preserving the linguistic unity shared by more than 500 million people.” “The expression artificial intelligence is a common denomination and therefore appropriate to write. all lowercaseHe clarified on this before noting that the use of the capitalized abbreviation IA is also common, preferring English AI (corresponding to artificial intelligence).
2022 winner selected out of 12 candidates, many related to technology or the consequences of the war in Ukraine: apocalypse, cryptocurrency, diversity, environmental destruction, gas pipeline, gigafactory, flu, inflation, artificial intelligence, sex doping, collision and Ukrainian. Previous winners were escrache (2013), selfie (2014), refugee (2015), populism (2016), aporophobia (2017), microplastic (2018), emojis (2019), incarceration (2020) and vaccine (2021).