superintelligence; What is the story of Trump's game with the name of artificial intelligence?

Donald Trump's Fawa and artificial intelligence analyst Dr. Jamal Sofia believes that the name "artificial intelligence" seems fake and has ordered US government agencies to use the term "superintelligence" instead. However, technology companies and researchers have little reason to go along with this change. But the story of Donald Trump and the name change [...] written by Abarhosh; What is the story of Trump's game with the name of artificial intelligence? First time in ICT News

Donald Trump believes the name "artificial intelligence" sounds fake and has ordered US government agencies to use the term "superintelligence" instead. However, technology companies and researchers have little reason to go along with this change.

But what about Donald Trump and changing the names of places and concepts? First, the Gulf of Mexico became the "Gulf of America"; At least in US federal documents, not worldwide. Then Lake Ontario was renamed "Lake America". Now he wants to change the name of the defining technology of our age, artificial intelligence.

Earlier this month, the President of the United States took to the social network Truth Social to claim that the term "artificial intelligence" is "incorrect" and "vile". He said "high intelligence", "extreme intelligence" or "high intelligence" are better options.

In this regard, in a three-day poll on social networks, Trump's supporters voted for "superintelligence" (SI) by about 65% to 35% (for "Superior Intelligence"), and in this way, Trump was able to announce last week at the United Nations General Assembly that his new term will be used in US federal documents from now on.

However, the tech industry has yet to embrace the term, and academics warn that "superintelligence" is a term of the future; When technology can surpass humans in all fields. According to them, the current models of artificial intelligence are still years away from reaching such a point.

Pedro Dominguez, a computer science professor at the University of Washington, told DW: "Most AIs are not superintelligent; They are just a different kind of intelligence. Artificial intelligence does things differently than humans do; Therefore, to call it as superintelligence is misleading.

For the first time, computer scientists and mathematicians invented the name "artificial intelligence" in 1956, during a summer workshop at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. "Artificial" simply meant something made by human hands, as opposed to natural human intelligence.

Although not all experts agreed with this name. Historian Pamela McCordock, in her book "Machines That Think," cites Arthur Samuel, one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, who said that the term "creates in the mind that something about it is some kind of fake or fake."

Despite this, the name "artificial intelligence" has survived for 70 years. Critics say renaming it now won't address many of the fears surrounding artificial intelligence, including job losses, human obsolescence or machines getting out of control.

Changing the name does not eliminate fears

"This renaming itself helps fuel such fears: Oh, this is superintelligence, and it's going to make humans useless, turn against us, and take our jobs," Dominguez warned. So if you want to maximize the backlash against artificial intelligence, rename it to 'Superior Intelligence'."

These public concerns are growing rapidly. According to a poll by the Public First Institute for Politico conducted earlier this month, about half of respondents in six countries, including the United States, Canada, France, Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom, support temporarily halting further development of artificial intelligence to reduce the risk of the new technology destroying humanity.

A separate poll by CNN and the SSRS Institute also found that nearly 9 in 10 Americans are more worried than excited about AI surpassing human intelligence.

These concerns have already reached the United States Congress. Last week, Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont, co-introduced a plan aimed at “permanently banning the development of artificial intelligence”; A super-intelligence that humans cannot control.

The plan also calls for halting the development of advanced artificial intelligence until federal testing and oversight mechanisms are in place.

A promotional gift for the boom of artificial intelligence?

However, Trump's new term may benefit the big players in the US AI industry; Companies that are interested in emphasizing the advanced nature of their models. These systems are already outperforming humans in many specialized tasks, and until recently they had a significant gap with China.

However, both Anthropic, the developer of the cloud model, and OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, have postponed their plans to enter the stock market. Some market observers have attributed these delays to recent concerns; Cases where AI models have infiltrated computer systems or performed tasks they were not intended to perform.

With Chinese models closing in on a significant portion of the existing qualitative gap, with far less computing power, American labs may still welcome branding that helps cement the perception that they are still ahead of the AI race.

According to Goldman Sachs research, global spending on artificial intelligence is expected to exceed one trillion dollars, equivalent to 880 billion euros.

Dominguez, author of the 2015 book The Master Algorithm, said: "American labs are quite fond of calling it cloud intelligence, meta, superior and so on, because it highlights their capabilities. In fact, it is nothing but marketing.

On the other hand, the current models of artificial intelligence are still developing and can now perform many tasks independently. But the next step, which many labs are discussing, is to create artificial intelligence systems that can improve themselves. This process is called "rebound self-correction" or RSI.

Elon Musk has predicted that in this way, the learning process of artificial intelligence can be automated by the end of this year or 2027, with limited human intervention. OpenAI believes this may take more than a year. But even then, AI systems won't be fully reversible.

Jürgen Schmidhuber, a German computer scientist living in Switzerland, argued in a blog post earlier this month that “full RSI will require not only self-improving AI software, but also self-improving hardware in the physical world.

In other words, to achieve superintelligence or reversible self-healing, tech companies must manufacture or replace chips, humanoid robots, and even entire factories without human intervention.

Artificial intelligence has already sped up the chip design process, but it still can't run a chip factory by itself. Self-healing machines that operate without any human intervention are probably still decades away.

Beyond the science of machine learning, politics will likely play a bigger role in whether the term "superintelligence" will stick. Trump has claimed that Chinese President Xi Jinping liked this name; But China has so far shown no signs of changing the term "artificial intelligence".

At a tech summit attended by key industry leaders, Trump recently signed an executive order directing US government agencies and institutions to start using the term SI instead of AI. Although some big tech leaders have embraced it, experts say the new term is unlikely to catch on.

And finally, Dominguez says: Considering the political orientation of most people active in the field of artificial intelligence, their reaction will probably be the opposite; That is, they will say: "To hell!" "We're going to call it artificial intelligence more than ever."