Industries worldwide are being transformed by artificial intelligence (AI), and the telecom industry is no different. Standardization is critical for industry alignment to achieve widespread adoption of AI in telecom. The 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) Release 18 is the first release of 5G-Advanced, which includes a diverse set of study and work items dedicated to AI. This article provides a holistic overview of the state of the art in the 3GPP work on AI in 5G-Advanced, by presenting the various 3GPP Release-18 activities on AI as an organic whole, explaining in detail the design aspects, and sharing various design rationales influencing standardization.

翻译：人工智能正在全球范围内推动各行各业的变革，电信行业亦不例外。标准化对于行业协同以实现人工智能在电信领域的广泛部署至关重要。第三代合作伙伴计划（3GPP）第18版是5G-Advanced的首个版本，其中包含了多项专注于人工智能的研究与工作项目。本文通过将3GPP第18版中关于人工智能的各项活动作为有机整体进行呈现，详细阐述设计要点，并分享影响标准化的多种设计理念，全面概述了3GPP在5G-Advanced中人工智能领域的最新进展。