Artificial intelligence (or AI) is the word of the year 2022, according to FundéuRAE

last year was vaccinemakes two lockdown and makes three emojibut this year’s word is “artificial intelligence“. The Urgent Spanish Foundation (FundéuRAE), promoted by the EFE Agency and the Royal Spanish Academy, has communicated its decision regarding a construction incorporated into the academic dictionary since 1992 and defined as “scientific discipline that deals with creating computer programs that execute operations comparable to those carried out by the human mind such as learning or logical reasoning.

As he explained, the reasons for his choice were “his important presence in the media during these last twelve months, as well as in the social debatedue to the various advances made in this field and the derived ethical consequences” such as the possible replacement of certain professionals after its application in some fields.

“Data analysis, cybersecurity, finance or linguistics are some of the areas that benefit from artificial intelligence, a concept that has gone from being a technology reserved for specialists to accompanying citizens in their daily lives”, adds the justification contained in the press release. From a linguistic point of view, the FundéuRAE has selected this construction as its word of the year “for the doubts that your writing has generated“. In fact, their statement points out, one of the challenges that artificial intelligence implies is “teaching machines How to properly use Spanish and preserve the unity of the language shared by more than 500 million people.

“The expression artificial intelligence is a common denomination and, therefore, the appropriate thing is write it entirely in lowercase“, he explained in this regard, before pointing out that it is also common to use of the acronym IA, which is written with a capital letter, and which is preferable to the English AI (corresponding to artificial intelligence). The 2022 winner has been chosen from among 12 candidates, several of them related to technology or the consequences derived from the war in Ukraine: apocalypse, cryptocurrency, diversity, ecocide, gas pipeline, gigafactory, flu, inflation, artificial intelligence, sex-doping, bump and ukrainian.