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Translingual
Symbol
AI
- (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Anguilla since 1985.
- Synonym: AIA (alpha-3)
- (international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Afars and the Issas from 1974 to 1977.
- Synonyms: AFI (alpha-3 1974–1977), DJ (1977–present, as Djibouti)
Usage notes
English
Pronunciation
Noun
AI (countable and uncountable, plural AIs)
- (artificial intelligence, countable and uncountable) Initialism of artificial intelligence.
- Coordinate terms: AGI, ASI
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Computers: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Codex entry:The geth serve as a cautionary tale against the dangers of rogue AI, and in Citadel Space they are technically illegal. Advocacy groups argue, however, that an AI is a living, conscious entity deserving the same rights as organics. They argue that continued use of the term "artificial" is institutionalized racism on the part of organic life, the term "synthetic" is considered the politically correct alternative.
2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 7 February 2019:The result, Gurry said, will be many new AI-based methods and products that can change lives across the world.
2022, Catriona Campbell, AI by Design: A Plan for Living with Artificial Intelligence (Chapman & Hall/CRC Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Series), Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN:A Vatican directive supplements such principles and states AI should be “explainable” to humans, i.e., we should be able to explain the reasons for a decision made by AI. The document also states that AI should avoid discrimination.
2023 March 21, Ian Bogost, “Is This the Singularity for Standardized Tests?”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 2023-03-25:The same is true for AIs that play (and win) these games.
2025 January 30, Tessa Solomon, “AI Art Lacking ‘Human Expression’ Cannot Be Copyrighted, US Officials Say”, in ARTnews:The report illustrated how easily matters of authorship can be muddled with AI using the example of a Gemini-generated cat smoking a pipe and reading a newspaper.
- (management) Initialism of action item.
- (British airforce) Initialism of airborne intelligence (synonym for an early type of airborne radar).
- (phonetics) Initialism of articulatory index.
- (agriculture) Initialism of artificial insemination.
- (nutrition) Initialism of adequate intake.
- Abbreviation of angiotensin I.
- (linguistics, anthropology) Initialism of atavistic-idiosyncratic.
- (video games) A character or entity controlled by the game instead of a player.
- Synonyms: NPC, CPU, bot
- Initialism of attitude indicator.
- (underwater diving) Initialism of air integration.
- (education) Initialism of academic integrity.
- Initialism of amelogenesis imperfecta.
Derived terms
Translations
artificial intelligence
- Afrikaans: KI
- Albanian: IA f
- Aragonese: IA f
- Armenian: արհեստական բանականություն (hy) (arhestakan banakanutʻyun), ԱԲ (AB)
- Azerbaijani: Sİ, SZ
- Bulgarian: ИИ (II)
- Catalan: IA (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 人工智能 (zh) (réngōng zhìnéng)
- Czech: UI f
- Danish: KI (da) or ki (da), AI (da)
- Dutch: KI f, ki (nl) f, AI (nl) f
- Esperanto: AI
- Finnish: tekoäly (fi)
- French: IA (fr) f
- Galician: IA f
- Georgian: ხი (xi) (rare)
- German: KI (de) f
- Greek: ΤΝ (el) f (TN)
- Hindi: कृत्रिम बुद्धि f (kŕtrim buddhi), कृबु f (kŕbu), आर्टिफ़िशियल इंटेलिजेंस f (ārṭifiśiyal iṇṭelijẽs), एआई m (eāī)
- Hungarian: MI (hu)
- Japanese: 人工知能 (ja) (じんこうちのう, jinkōchinō)
- Latvian: MI m
- Lithuanian: DI m
- Maltese: AI
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: KI m
- Nynorsk: KI m
- Polish: SI (pl) f
- Portuguese: IA (pt) f
- Romanian: IA f
- Russian: ИИ́ (ru) m (IÍ)
- Sicilian: NA
- Spanish: IA f
- Swahili: AM, AB
- Swedish: AI (sv) c
- Tamil: செநு (cenu)
- Thai: เอไอ (th) (ee-ai)
- Turkish: YZ (tr)
- Ukrainian: ШІ́ (uk) m (ŠÍ)
- Xibe: ᡝᡞ
ᠠᡞ (ei ai)
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Verb
AI (third-person singular simple present AIs, present participle AIing, simple past and past participle AIed)
- (informal) To use artificial intelligence to search for or generate content.
Proper noun
AI
- (aviation) Initialism of Air India.
- (television) Initialism of American Idol.
- Initialism of Amnesty International.
Further reading
- “AI”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “AI”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
(artificial intelligence)
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English AI.
Noun
AI c
- Synonym of kunstig intelligens (“artificial intelligence”); AI
Synonyms
References
German
Pronunciation
Proper noun
AI
- ISO 3166-2:CH code of Appenzell Innerrhoden (canton)
Indonesian
Pronunciation
Noun
AI (plural AI-AI)
- (computing) Initialism of akal imitasi (“artificial intelligence”).
Further reading
Japanese
Etymology
From English AI.
Pronunciation
Noun
AI • (ēai)
- Synonym of 人工知能 (jinkō chinō, “artificial intelligence”); AI
Malay
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English AI.
Pronunciation
Noun
AI
- Initialism of kecerdasan buatan.
Further reading
Swedish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English AI. According to SO attested since 1979.
Noun
AI c
- (artificial intelligence) Initialism of artificiell intelligens.
- (video games) A character or entity controlled by the game instead of a player.
- Synonyms: NPC, bot
Declension
References
Vietnamese
Etymology
From English AI.
Pronunciation
Noun
AI
- Synonym of trí tuệ nhân tạo (“artificial intelligence”); AI