Inside Trump's "super intelligence" naming problem
President Trump proposed renaming artificial intelligence to "super intelligence" and launched a poll offering alternatives like Superior Intelligence and Supreme Intelligence. He then announced that the U.S. would use "super intelligence" in all official government documents. Trump later said that Chinese President Xi Jinping appeared to support this new terminology.
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3 developments- Sep 19Trump Calls AI ‘Super Intelligence’ at UN
- Sep 22Trump says AI will be renamed 'super intelligence' in all US documents
- Sep 25Trump: Xi 'seemed to like' calling AI 'Super Intelligence'
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Center
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