Latest outburst comes as his push to rebrand the emerging technology increasingly falls flat

Donald Trump on Thursday opened up a new front in his ongoing war against commonly used terms and geographic names by warning that anyone referring to Large Language Models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude as “Artificial Intelligence” would earn themselves a place on his enemies list.

Writing on Truth Social, he declared that the White House “considers anyone that uses the term, ‘Artificial Intelligence,’ as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, ‘Super Intelligence,’ THE ENEMY!”

The president’s outburst-cum-veiled threat landed just over a week after he signed an executive order directing executive branch agencies to begin referring to artificial intelligence, which is now embedded across the federal government, as “super intelligence” following a lunch with leaders in the AI industry, including Elon Musk, Sundar Pichai, Dario Amodei and others.

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    21 days ago

    If ‘super intelligence’ is such a “highly accepted” phrase, why is Trump so insecure about some people not using it? The ‘gentleman’ doth protest too much.

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    Loyalty test. If you don’t use their language you don’t support them.

    History tells us this is common with these types of regimes.

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      Also, Trump is constantly talking to grok now, likely a version of grok tuned to constantly praise him more than the already spineless praise that you normally get from chatbots.

      Trump only ever praises people, or things now I guess, that butter him up first.

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        It’s a fucking black box, for all we know Elon is the one providing the answers to the President. Hell, it is probably being used as a back channel.

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          Well, maybe it’s Indians - people joke that “AI” means Actually Indians, given the cases of fraud…

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            My daughter was telling me some awful stuff like they employ people in foreign countries to train AI on detecting child porn. They basically have to watch it all day. So gross knowing human beings have to do shit like this to make AI a reality.

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    Instead of “artificial intelligence” or “super intelligence", how about “Trump-like intelligence”?

    Everyone can read into that whatever implications they want.

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      Wonder if he’ll be dumb enough to fight Apple as well who calls it AI, using the name Apple Intelligence since iOS 18. It got a lot more Integrated with their latest OS’s but I don’t see them throwing away the name Apple Intelligence so quickly after putting the name in over a billion devices.

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      Tbh, when the news of “super intelligence” first came out, I was surprised he didn’t just called it “Trump intelligence” or “america intelligence”

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    Of course, the conman is fuming that nobody cares about changing the name of AI because his latest con depends on the value of all the .si domains they purchase in June going up.

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      It’s a computer. It’s ones and zeros following a program. It will NEVER have intelligence.

      It is technically Artificial Stupidity. There is NO I.Q there.

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        IQ is just a measure of pattern recognition. An AI can do that well. Our brains are just like computer, with neurons instead of matrices. Our brains are just way more complex. It’s hard to define intelligence.

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          Our brains are electro-chemical. Not just like a computer.

          The chemicals are what “decided” to make or break a connection. No digital machine is going to emulate that.

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            The brain is just a different machine.

            And of course digital systems can emulate analogue systems.

            Not that that’s a prerequisite for intelligence.

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              The two super computers that the NWS uses to predict the weather are consistently at odds with each other.

              Same program, same input, different output.

              When things get real complicated, things start behaving unpredictably.

              Then you have entropy. That machine is heading for the junkyard. How many repairs will you tolerate?

              If it’s really, really complicated, how will you know it’s broken?

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        Just a few though. Biden is obviously a war criminal. From the Democratic party, no less. Such a massive disappointment and disgrace. We need to apply the best medical science we have to keeping him and trump alive so we can try them and give them a few sunset years in prison before they croak. We have the technology, lets use it. I dont care what it costs. Dying is getting out much too easy for their crimes.

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    “Artificial Intelligence” has been the preferred nomenclature since 1955. What a fucking clown.

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      Well anything that old should be dragged outback and shot. But be sure to livestream it.

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    That’s okay, Don. I was already your enemy.

    Oh, and you’ve got it backwards. You’re the one who’s the enemy of our Republic. And pretty much everyone else, too.

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        Really? My initial thought was, “We deserve it.”

        Our neighbors elected Trump twice. It’s clear they’re not the most intelligent in the world.

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      You’re right to feel this way. This is absolutely correct.

      The intelligent American choice is between

      • omnicidal biosphere destruction, with a side order of genocide; or
      • omnicidal biosphere destruction, with a side order of genocide and bigotry.

      These are the only two options available, because no-one has ever made ethical choices, anywhere, in all of human history. It’s impossible. Instead choose one of these so you have a better chance of being on the winning evil team.

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      Heres your ticket, you are trump-enemy # 323,064,783 Thats just the count in America. Across the world it’ll be more like # 6 billion. I’m afraid you’re late to the count but welcome! Have a beer.