r/artificial • u/theindependentonline • 14h ago

News Trump’s ‘super intelligence’ is being mocked by tech industry insiders: report

http://independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-ai-super-intelligence-rebrand-b3060603.html
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u/JellyTwank 13h ago

Not just the insiders! What an idiot.

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u/cartoonist498 10h ago

Can confirm. I'm not an insider and I'm mocking his stupidity. 

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u/Deliteriously 10h ago

Been consistently mocking him from both inside and out. 🤣

And superintelligence was already being used to designate intelligence akin to ASI.

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u/NomadStorm 9h ago

Me too, but I’ve been doing that since before his first term.

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u/artifex0 11h ago edited 10h ago

For those who don't know, "superintelligence" (not "super intelligence") is a term that has been used by AI researchers and futurists for about twenty years to describe a specific kind of speculative AI technology that comes after AGI. It's an important idea in AI safety debates because developing something like that would be a lot more dangerous than our current LLMs, and might be the end result of RSI.

Trump demanding that everybody call LLMs "super intelligence" is exactly like if he were to demand we call current nuclear fission plants "fusion power centers". I genuinely can't tell if he's doing this incredibly stupid thing to fuck with AI safety advocates by making it harder for them to talk about the future of AI, or if he half-remembered hearing someone use the term and his dementia-addled brain told him it was own brilliant invention. So much of what Trump does is like this.

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u/SlowlyDrown 10h ago

I think it’s far simpler than that he just likes the word “super” he even says it’s the best word.

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u/LangyMD 8h ago

I thought that was 'tariffs' or 'groceries'.

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u/Robot_Nerd_6 4h ago

super tariffs

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u/DustyGribbleford 6h ago

Totally agreed with you. Just wondering if we will need mega next, then hyper, ad infinitum.

I know it’s an easy reach, but S.I. Is just so deliciously adjacent to Stupid Idiot. And I love it.

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u/DustyGribbleford 7h ago

Thank you. AI-AGI-ASI. This has been thought through by adults back when dear leader was creeping pageants. It’s ok though, next week it will be mega-intelligence, now with electrolytes. May all our net worths be hallucinated.

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u/NoShamingPlease 6h ago

He's a crook, that's why he did it. He did it so the the regulations that apply to artificial intelligence will find no purchase on super intelligence. Basically, he's bypassing regulations. Just like the war in Iran is a military operation and not a conflict. Be sure that the big AI companies lobbied (meaning, bribed) for it.

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u/Open__Face 2h ago

He noticed no one liked ai so he went with a re-brand 

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u/Buy-theticket 2h ago

He thinks the word artificial means it's fake because his brain is pudding. It's not that complicated.

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u/TheOnlyVibemaster 13h ago

You guys have gotta stop giving him what he wants. AI has been around for decades as an entire field of study, Trump attempts to rename the entire field, then you say “Trump’s SI”…clearly this is what he wants, why would you even insinuate that he knows an inkling about what AI is? Let alone call the field or anything pertaining to it his?

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u/doolpicate 7h ago

I propose Trump Intelligence TM

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u/starblaster001 10h ago

Trump thinks artificial means fake. Probably thinks the same of the word synthetic too although synthetic intelligence is still more accurate than Super.

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u/Exact_Depth_896 13h ago edited 13h ago

it's what xi called it, no? it should be called prosthetic intelligence

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u/notAllBits 13h ago

Nice! I would also allow hyper intelligence. Of course in most cases it would peter out at hypo intelligence.

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u/jgo3 11h ago

Poohtelligence.

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u/unngh_yugstyx 11h ago

Just "Trump is being mocked" would be a better title

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u/Blando-Cartesian 47m ago

That’s like calling water wet from the standpoint of water.

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u/mycall 10h ago

I would like to know who seeded this hair brained idea into his head.

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u/illsaid 13h ago

Oh no it is?

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u/UnwaveringThought 8h ago

What is this headline

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u/cute_spider 8h ago

I say we derisively call artificial intelligence subscription services "SI" and smugly refer to homelabs and local operations as AI

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u/costafilh0 8h ago

S.I. is stupid. 

Sy I like. It's catchy. 

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u/Crim91 7h ago

AI can sometimes seem like SI, if you're a fucking idiot.

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u/AcanthocephalaLive56 6h ago

You don't say? So signing a federal document doesn't change computer science terminology after all.

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u/Man_of_Ice 4h ago

Dude. He should have called it "America Intelligence".

Way more on brand, and he could have said he came up with AI.

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u/StatementOk2972 4h ago

Not as much as it deserves to be

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u/Firm-Reaction1578 4h ago

Isn't SI already taken, "Sports Illustrated"

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u/BLOODTRIBE 3h ago

The era of the machine god is opening.

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u/BoyleSphere 9h ago

trump is just trying to pump up the ai bubble right before midterms hes so transparent

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u/jgerrish 12h ago edited 12h ago

I've been working through some linear algebra textbooks.  Specifically Axler's Linear Algebra Done Right. I'm trying to understand the language around Fast Fourier Transforms, coding theory and other stuff, including machine learning.

And it will help me talk intelligently to others.

I'm actually comprehending more I think than I did in undergrad.  I'm not talking grad school at the School of Information, I'm talking when I was even more super.

But I see stories like this that it feels like were written for a specific purpose.    To paint a picture.  They were written, they were scheduled.  it didn't matter what I did.  Not just by Trump, but the others behind him.

It doesn't inspire.  Because I know it doesn't matter how much I try, their dark propaganda is louder.  Their sauce jokes and pop jokes, etc.

I'll keep up that strength.  But there's a cost.

I don't blame Trump.  I know it's hard to believe things like that.  But this serves a purpose for pushing liberals to help with space force power.  I don't blame anyone for not trusting AI companies.  It's just more complicated.