Prediction: One or two big companies will use it for reasons of scoring political points with the administration. Everyone else will ignore it and mock those who use it.
As for me: Like it or not, Trump is my president. He's not my dictator, and he's not my technical dictionary. I'll use what terms I like. He doesn't get to tell me which terms to use (the First Amendment is on my side in this one.)
And I consider AI to be both more accurate and more established than SI, so I'll call it AI. And, as I said, I suspect that most people will do the same.
There are many good reasons for an American to be deeply embarrassed by this administration. The push to normalize the term "Super Intelligence", while not highly consequential, is a deeply silly, juvenile, and therefore embarrassing move, emblematic of the lack of thoughtfulness with which the current government makes decisions. It's also utterly tone-deaf and fails to even pay lip-service to the legitimate concerns that many citizens have about the impact of AI on their lives.
Intelligence would be, having voted for the mango Mussolini three times against your own interests, that you’d wake up and change your vote the fourth time.
Super Intelligence would be not having voted for him at all.
Feels like sunk cost fallacy. Clearly US is so far behind in human facing concerns so might as well not waste any more of the precious resources. Let’s just double down on investing in the prosperity few rich armed with super intelligent robots and maybe they’ll solve the problem by accelerating the pace of making the rest of the world so much worse that this comparison is over once and for all.
Does this depend on the state you live in? A K-12 education in Massachusetts is different from K-12 education in Alabama to me. Although I am guessing this is an overall statement about the US.
This feels like the eternal fallacy of US metrics. You have good states, and bad states, and everyone’s judged on the lowest denominator.
Massachusetts- 99% have healthcare, longer lifespan than most developed nations, top US education system, diverse economy, wealthiest population, strong safety net, high minimum wage, safe communities w low gun violence, net provider of federal tax revenue, etc
I still prefer AI; it's better. The SI is just another way of taking ppl's money with domain names. few weeks before the announcement. Most amazing one-word .si domains were already taken. Now they are being sold for 3, 4, or even 5 figures. Keep it AI. Keep it simple!
There's an ongoing race to build capabilities and there's a race to understand, control, and align these systems. If we rush too far ahead in the first race, we face disaster. That's why so many people working at the leading American companies signed the pacing the frontier letter.
> If we rush too far ahead in the first race, we face disaster. That's why so many people working at the leading American companies signed the pacing the frontier letter.
They're after regulatory capture, disadvantaging competition.
OpenAI and Anthropic have collectively spent tens of billions of dollars, with their annual burn rates climbing rapidly, for something that increasingly commoditized at the non-frontier (i.e. MOST) applications.
That doesn't mean there aren't ALSO people who are worried that we will kills ourselves with AI, but they are in the minority.
Putting aside the political ideas, I find the website pretty cool!
It looks more like the kind of thing a web designer or demoscener would put up to show off his productions than a government website about a hot political topic.
i'm pretty sure the branding is just to filter anyone that isn't loyal to trump, anyone that doesn't agree with the new term is easily identified then slowly set aside.
That explains, not just this, but many other things - the absurd, indefensible statements that are still defended, the court cases, the denial of election losses, and probably more that don't come to mind after five seconds of thought.
This is also close to the authoritarian "make people say absurd things as a demonstration of power over them" playbook.
This is exactly what it is for. Fascism deploys hypocrisy very deliberately for exactly this reason. If you conform, it's a signal you will continue to conform to the admins policies. Push it until it's silly. People willing to look the fool, but remain loyal, are valuable to the admin.
They do this (at least at first) to pull people out of their staff who would slow them down or fight them. Then they expand the scope, where they hope to reach the entire population.
While I wait for my mail in ballot to be delivered, which is taking a suspiciously long time, while the President, who has already ben impeached for one visible and overt coup attempt, has specifically ordered the USPS not to deliver them on either side, this is a good place to note to you, that he has also declared anyone who doesn’t call it super intelligence to be THE ENEMY, in all caps.
Careful there. Seeing contradictions and mistakes made by your dear leader may not be as good of an idea as you it sounds. For the only reason that nobody would lift their ass to do anything else but raise their grave concerns over yet another violation of civil conduct by offending parties, which will probably not help to ones suffering from such.
This is exactly what I’m thinking. It takes a certain type of people across the whole political spectrum, that consciously or not take the Orwellian newspeak idea and think, wouldn’t it be splendid to implement it?
Another popular strawman used by all sides is that if you subscribe to ideas roughly encompassed by a movement or party XYZ, you automatically accept every idea and condone every action of all members of XYZ, even the wackiest wackos. Which implies that either you are a wacko, or that XYZ is not thought-policing their own well enough.
I don’t know, detecting and rebutting or avoiding these fallacious ways of thinking should probably become a part of middle school curricula, or we as a society are screwed.
Yes, but who told you the GP was in that camp? Speaking from experience, plenty of people on the left thought the whole master branch, the pronouns or (even worse) whitelist thing to be insane.
No, I don’t imply GP to be in any camp whatsoever. I am only making an observation about how the current administration seems to be thinking, and how the way in which it seems to be thinking doesn’t differ much from what they supposedly are „liberating” the US from, which could be hilarious as fuck, had it not been so sad.
Instead of getting a complete freedom of speech, there is a new set of shibboleths, and only the people and ideas from the in-crowd get a pass.
How did we end up here. Even Super Cringe can't possibly describe this administration and this unhinged con man and the money behind him who have been granted excessive powers by an irresponsible Supreme Court and are enshitifying everything about our nation. Super Intelligence.
I doubt the members of the Court that granted effective total immunity to the executive (which a sole member found profoundly wrong) are "uneducated" and perceptible to propaganda. That the masses are led by nose is SOP in every country, without exception.
The question isn't whether you will, it's which corporations jump on this. Google jumped on Gulf of America and Lake America. Will they now start calling Gemini an SI model?
It's true in general, but I just don't understand how Google can't see where this is going. He's going order a renaming that's so stupid they can't go through with it - he's floated the "Trump Ocean" - and then their punishment will be much more severe with much less defense from the rest of us than if they'd taken a stand in the first place.
From what I’ve been told, this is like back in the 1990’s when the US collectively decided to outsource manufacturing to other countries via coordinated action between the government and industry. The motivation was too boost profits. Here we are today, our manufacturing base gutted and a lot of hard working Americans left with nothing. AI is the same thing, except it’s going after our high paying jobs and collective knowledge. So our future again will be one will less good jobs for hard working people, but also one where knowledge is much less valuable.
Unfortunately, it's easy to recognise that there's a systematic class war (between the property-owning classes and the rest), but the balance of power is so skewed that knowing about it doesn't particularly help. I suppose the problem is also that a lot of the poorer people actively vote and work to help the property-owners even though it's completely against their interests.
AI is the correct term because it describes "what" it is (artificial, not natural intelligence). SI describes the magnitude and is no doubt meant as marketing, which then invites different prefixes over time ("ultra intelligence", etc.), creating consumer confusion.
I don't know why you're being downvoted. Here is his exact quote:
"The use of the word 'artificial' makes intelligence fake. It makes it sound fake and it is not fake. It’s actually amazing, but we have to be careful. In fact, it is exactly the opposite of what it purports."
I see people just skip over the part where "intelligence" is uncomfortably difficult to define and may not be a generally coherent concept to begin with.
The correct term is "chatbot" in most cases. I've witnessed people make dumb decisions somewhat blindly because "AI" recommended it. If they had called it a chatbot maybe some skepticism would have kicked in.
... and it has never meant "just anything that could be called AI", or even "just anything that could be called AGI".
What we have here with Trump is properly known as "superstupidity": a degree of stupidity that is at best metastable in any physical system, and eventually collapses upward to the intelligence ground state, which is roughly the intelligence of the vaccum.
They're aiming for more stupidity that Idiocracy as their president (in Idiocracy) realised that asking the "most intelligent" person to help solve their problems was a good idea.
AFI, American Freedom Intelligence. Mark my words, dumb people will use that, soon, since ASI/SI is actually the same term by just lazily leaving of a redundant part of the term.
Trump is flailing, and desperate to build a legacy. This SI nonsense is his take at the Al Gore Internet thing. I'm just surprised he didn't shoehorn in "Trump".
wait, we need more than one future ruler of earth? Won't any two Skynets fight each other for control, which is why the US want to be first, not second, after PRC?
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[ 0.29 ms ] story [ 15.2 ms ] threadAs for me: Like it or not, Trump is my president. He's not my dictator, and he's not my technical dictionary. I'll use what terms I like. He doesn't get to tell me which terms to use (the First Amendment is on my side in this one.)
And I consider AI to be both more accurate and more established than SI, so I'll call it AI. And, as I said, I suspect that most people will do the same.
Wait til you get the Trump Ocean (formerly Pacific Ocean), and the America Ocean (formerly Atlantic).
I'm proud to claim that I wrote that before the idea of "agents" was invented.
Super Intelligence would be not having voted for him at all.
Massachusetts- 99% have healthcare, longer lifespan than most developed nations, top US education system, diverse economy, wealthiest population, strong safety net, high minimum wage, safe communities w low gun violence, net provider of federal tax revenue, etc
Alabama - best bet is to start driving north now
Understand that and a lot of the behavior of this administration makes sense.
They're after regulatory capture, disadvantaging competition.
OpenAI and Anthropic have collectively spent tens of billions of dollars, with their annual burn rates climbing rapidly, for something that increasingly commoditized at the non-frontier (i.e. MOST) applications.
That doesn't mean there aren't ALSO people who are worried that we will kills ourselves with AI, but they are in the minority.
It looks more like the kind of thing a web designer or demoscener would put up to show off his productions than a government website about a hot political topic.
This is also close to the authoritarian "make people say absurd things as a demonstration of power over them" playbook.
They do this (at least at first) to pull people out of their staff who would slow them down or fight them. Then they expand the scope, where they hope to reach the entire population.
Ain’t that what the so-called woke pussies do? Inventing words and declaring all who won’t adopt them enemies?
Oh how the turntables turn…
> Ain’t that what the so-called woke pussies do? Inventing words and declaring all who won’t adopt them enemies? > Oh how the turntables turn…
Do you think that maybe this is an "American" (culture) disease? Not a right/left thing?
Another popular strawman used by all sides is that if you subscribe to ideas roughly encompassed by a movement or party XYZ, you automatically accept every idea and condone every action of all members of XYZ, even the wackiest wackos. Which implies that either you are a wacko, or that XYZ is not thought-policing their own well enough.
I don’t know, detecting and rebutting or avoiding these fallacious ways of thinking should probably become a part of middle school curricula, or we as a society are screwed.
Instead of getting a complete freedom of speech, there is a new set of shibboleths, and only the people and ideas from the in-crowd get a pass.
What state / city are you in?
Mine arrived more than a week ago.
This vote is critical.
You might as well try to unilaterally rename one of the Great Lakes.
Outside of the US, it's still shown by the actual name, with the "local name" shown in parentheses.
It's a very complicated topic, it's just that in stable countries/regions, you don't tend to have direct contact with it.
Conflicts are most often won not by the stronger side, but by the side which recognises first that the conflict exists.
(Even then a donation to the ballroom will cover any incidents where members of your board slip up and forget their good intentions)
It's emperor!
"The use of the word 'artificial' makes intelligence fake. It makes it sound fake and it is not fake. It’s actually amazing, but we have to be careful. In fact, it is exactly the opposite of what it purports."
Let’s ask chat(bot) vs let’s ask super intelligence - it is a different game.
What we have here with Trump is properly known as "superstupidity": a degree of stupidity that is at best metastable in any physical system, and eventually collapses upward to the intelligence ground state, which is roughly the intelligence of the vaccum.
wait, we need more than one future ruler of earth? Won't any two Skynets fight each other for control, which is why the US want to be first, not second, after PRC?
Race for not race of?
So it means they still didn’t reach Super Intelligence, which means Super Intelligence is the new name of AGI means AI is still AI.
What else?