There are already extra machines than individuals who converse Spanish: the Spanish Language Congress of Arequipa will deal with the problem of AI | Culture | EUROtoday

The Peruvian metropolis of Arequipa, Cultural Heritage of Humanity of UNESCO, prepares to host from October 14 to 17 the tenth International Congress of the Spanish Language (CILE), the good trianual appointment of a language that speaks 600 million folks on the earth and that may carry collectively 260 audio system, together with linguists, lecturers, writers, journalists, historians, editors, scientists … this occasion shall be formally opened by the king. Felipe VI on October 15, date on which the Spanish -Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, who died on April 13 in Lima, will even be honored. As the director of the Cervantes Institute, Luis García Montero, “Vargas Llosa was the first to be held a Spanish Language Congress in her hometown in her hometown in Madrid in Madrid on the presentation of the Cile.”

The director of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), Santiago Muñoz Machado, recalled that “the Government of Peru is the main organizer of the event”, so there will even be the presence of the nation’s president, Dina Boluarte. The different organizers are the Cervantes Institute, the SAR and the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language (ASALE). In Arequipa, “a complex program will be developed because proposals of the 23 corporations of the ASALE” are accepted. “There are a total of 235 proposals, of which 224 come from the Asale and the rest are external,” he added.

One of the axes of the CILE of Arequipa shall be that of “Communication Technologies, Digital Culture and Artificial Intelligence.” “How AI affects the language because there are already more machines that speak Spanish than people. You have to make the AI ​​speak as humans do and for this you have to convince manufacturers of that machines to use the canonical language,” Muñoz Machado added. This part will embrace conversations concerning the problem of preserving the unity of the language within the digital atmosphere, the interpretation in AI or how this impacts the media and instructing.

Muñoz Machado recalled that the SAR is concerned on this means of the connection of the language with know-how by the Spanish Language and Artificial Intelligence program (Leia), whose goal is “the defense, projection and good use of the Spanish language in the digital universe and, especially, in artificial intelligence”.

A second block of Congress will take care of “Spanish as a mestizo language and interculturality”, a difficulty that was already addressed within the earlier CILE, held in Cádiz, in March 2023. It has been recalled that the appointment deliberate then was in Arequipa, however that it couldn’t be held because of the sophisticated political state of affairs of the American nation. This time there shall be room to debate the language in migration and exile, the Spanish of the United States, the gastronomic number of Spanish and the incidence of Quechua, Aymara and Amazonian languages ​​in Andean Spanish.

Finally, there shall be a block on the “clear and accessible language,” mentioned Muñoz Machado, “the one who proposes that public authorities go to citizens with a language that is understood.” Among different debates, clear language shall be mentioned within the media and promoting.

In every of those three principal axes there shall be “a general rapporteur, two discussion tables and simultaneous panels with expert talks.” In the problem of miscegenation there shall be as much as 14 panels and in that of clear language, 13. As in every congress, cultural actions will even be developed.

The president of the Organizing Commission and the Working Group of the X CILE, Carlos Chávez-Taffur, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru, recalled that “the Spanish arrived in that country more than five centuries ago and that currently reaches 83% of the population as the first language and is the second for the remaining 17%”.

The summits about Spanish started to be held in 1997, in Zacatecas (Mexico), to mirror on the State and challenges of this language. Each version is widely known in historic cities, however not within the capitals of American nations.