The Urgent Spanish Foundation (FundéuRAE), promoted by the EFE Agency and the Royal Spanish Academy, has awarded

the title of "word of the year" in 2022 to the complex expression "artificial intelligence".

This Thursday its decision was communicated before 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 FundéuRAE explained, the reasons for his election have been "his important presence in the media over the last twelve months, as well as in the social debate, due to the various advances made in this area and the derived ethical consequences" as It would be the possible replacement of certain professionals after its application in some areas.

"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

"because of the doubts that its writing has generated"

.

In fact, their statement points out, one of the challenges implied by artificial intelligence 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, it is appropriate to write it entirely with lower case", he explained in this regard, before pointing out that the use of the acronym IA is also common, which is written with a capital letter, and that it 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.

The previous winners were escrache (2013), selfie (2014), refugee (2015), populism (2016), aporophobia (2017), microplastic (2018), emojis (2019), confinement (2020) and vaccine (2021).

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