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.
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.
Calling it to super intelligence is a commitment to never fix K12 education.
Why bother educating people when a "super intelligence" exists to do all the thinking? "Artificial" intelligence, sure, it's artificial not the real thing, so we still need people. But "super" intelligence? That language puts it above human intelligence, and intentionally diminishes humanity with their mere normal intelligence.
(FWIW putting a dilettante and then wrestling mogul in charge of the Department of Education and gutting it was also a commitment to never fix K12 education, so this is not new)
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.
Several frontier AI labs are already using the term "superintelligence" publicly, and some are increasingly positioning it as their ultimate objective rather than simply "artificial intelligence."
The term dates from the 90s at least. It's not a new term and I don't think we should stop using it just because the orange one has taken a liking to it.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Its cool, but too many distracting things which makes it a bit difficult to read. Specifically the bounce effect, is a bit disorienting to view on a large screen.
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!
process information and generate an output is really enough. A calculator is mentioned in Wikipedia as being an AI technology, and we feared students would no longer learn and understand calculus and the people who worked as Computers at companies would lose that job. Only one of both came true, and the math nerds still get a job at different tasks with a different title.
Okay, now no one can add numbers at scale since Excel exists and calculates at the accuracy limits of a counter-top calculator. But in theory, spreadsheets can be intelligent solving tools.
It's the drawing of conclusions where I see the intelligence. The other two steps are the input and output mechanisms - I deliberately avoided the mention of what sensors would be used or how the actions would be carried out.
A calculator does not draw conclusions. Neither does excel - it just passes variables through a tree of if and while statements - the developer drew the conclusions when he wrote the excel formulae. Same with e.g. a PERL script.
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".
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.
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.
> While I wait for my mail in ballot to be delivered
What state / city are you in?
Mine arrived more than a week ago.
Guess I've signed up to be THE ENEMY, then.
> has also declared anyone who doesn’t call it super intelligence to be THE ENEMY, in all caps.
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…
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.
> > has also declared anyone who doesn’t call it super intelligence to be THE ENEMY, in all caps.
> 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?
> who has already ben impeached for one visible and overt coup attempt,
Don't "overt" and "visible" mean the same thing in this context?
No. Similar but different definitions. Like "obvious and blatant".
Before chasing super intelligence maybe fix how bad the average K12 education is for humans compared to the rest of the developed world.
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.
Isn't USA pretty average compared to the rest of the developed world?
Did we make it all the way up to average?! Good for us!
Calling it to super intelligence is a commitment to never fix K12 education.
Why bother educating people when a "super intelligence" exists to do all the thinking? "Artificial" intelligence, sure, it's artificial not the real thing, so we still need people. But "super" intelligence? That language puts it above human intelligence, and intentionally diminishes humanity with their mere normal intelligence.
(FWIW putting a dilettante and then wrestling mogul in charge of the Department of Education and gutting it was also a commitment to never fix K12 education, so this is not new)
A step further: That road leads toward a population that will be obedient to the "supers" rather than think for itself.
Hah, I came here to say the same thing. Let’s get to regular boring intelligence before we start talking about super intelligence.
What?! And raise revolutionaries!? That's crazy talk.
I wish you were kidding.
Why? If SI is going to take over everything, wouldn't a well-informed human population just get in the way? /s
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.
Ultra High Speed 4.0 Intelligence.
Ultra Max Pro Tactical Intellect Titanium Edition XXX
Relieved to know the Assistant to the President for the Office of the First Lady is a key part of the SI Task Force.
Several frontier AI labs are already using the term "superintelligence" publicly, and some are increasingly positioning it as their ultimate objective rather than simply "artificial intelligence."
You couldn't pay me to call it super intelligence. I'm really curious how the industry will react to this name split.
Kinda feels like the X/Twitter one. When someone uses the new term you learn something about them
Remember there's only one side that says "I don't want to be judged for my vote". And it's because they know they're voting for abhorrent shit.
Do you call it Facebook or Meta?
The term dates from the 90s at least. It's not a new term and I don't think we should stop using it just because the orange one has taken a liking to it.
[0] How Long Before Superintelligence? (1997) https://nickbostrom.com/papers/how-long-before-superintellig...
We still call it "machine learning"
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.
I’m not using that term to describe a field of study over 80 years old.
You might as well try to unilaterally rename one of the Great Lakes.
Or the Gulf Of Mexico.
Or cybersecurity.
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.
This time the borders are open and if the US does not compete, it will be out-competed.
Conflicts are most often won not by the stronger side, but by the side which recognises first that the conflict exists.
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.
Not sure how it looks on desktop, but on my phone those background animations are brutal for usability.
Wouldn't load on mobile after ~20 seconds
Works on my mobile
Works on my machine
I refuse to believe these people aren’t just LARPing Idiocracy at this point.
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.
The most cringe administration in human memory, in any country.
> largest SI ecosystem
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?
Прийшла весна, настало лєто. Спасіба партії за ето!
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.
If AI -> Super Intelligence, is ASI -> Super Duper Intelligence? SDI!
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.
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.
They just learned how to vibecode it seems
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.
Its cool, but too many distracting things which makes it a bit difficult to read. Specifically the bounce effect, is a bit disorienting to view on a large screen.
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!
Saying AI now doubleplus ungood. It is goodthink to accept SI > humans and thoughtcrime otherwise
Sponsored by Flock!
Super cringe.
That's SC. Close.
This is a very effective way to ensure no one ever calls it super intelligence.
What economic rewards? More produits for the magnificent 7.
What else?
> America is in a race for Super Intelligence. We intend to win it.
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.
"Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho, hold my beer!" -DJT
Can we stop with the animate on scroll backgrounds.
what really is intelligence?
The ability to process information, draw conclusions, and choose a course of action to achieve a goal.
I'm proud to claim that I wrote that before the idea of "agents" was invented.
process information and generate an output is really enough. A calculator is mentioned in Wikipedia as being an AI technology, and we feared students would no longer learn and understand calculus and the people who worked as Computers at companies would lose that job. Only one of both came true, and the math nerds still get a job at different tasks with a different title.
Okay, now no one can add numbers at scale since Excel exists and calculates at the accuracy limits of a counter-top calculator. But in theory, spreadsheets can be intelligent solving tools.
It's the drawing of conclusions where I see the intelligence. The other two steps are the input and output mechanisms - I deliberately avoided the mention of what sensors would be used or how the actions would be carried out.
A calculator does not draw conclusions. Neither does excel - it just passes variables through a tree of if and while statements - the developer drew the conclusions when he wrote the excel formulae. Same with e.g. a PERL script.
an engineered concept
An observed concept.
I cannot stand this administration and their Trump branding of everything. Fuck everything about this.
It's narcissism. The missing ingredient is narcissism.
Understand that and a lot of the behavior of this administration makes sense.
> Under President Trump, the nation aims to usher in a new golden age of innovation
What a joke. Maybe we should ask ChatGPT about a few of his "alternative facts".
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".
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.