The expression “artificial intelligence” is the word of 2022 in Spanish

The expression “artificial intelligence” was chosen as the word of the year 2022 in Spanish by the Urgent Spanish Foundation (FundéuRAE), announced this Thursday this institution promoted by the Royal Spanish Academy and the EFE press agency.

The FundéuRAE justified the decision by the “important presence in the media” of this concept in the last twelve months, both “in the media (…) and in the social debate, due to the various advances developed in this area and the resulting ethical consequences.

The dictionary defines artificial intelligence as “a scientific discipline that deals with creating computer programs that perform operations comparable to those performed by the human mind, such as learning or logical reasoning.”

The FundéuRAE took advantage of the announcement to recall that “the expression artificial intelligence is a common denomination and, therefore, it is appropriate to write it entirely with lower case”, and to recommend that the acronym IA is chosenpreferable to the English AI (for “artificial intelligence”).

The winner of this 2022 has been chosen from among 12 candidatessome related to the war in Ukraine: apocalypse, cryptocurrency, diversity, ecocide, gas pipeline, gigafactory, flu, inflation, artificial intelligence, sex-doping, bumping and Ukrainian.

Among the previous winners were escrache (2013), selfi (2014), confinement (2020) or vaccine (2021).