“Trump has publicly pushed to rename “artificial intelligence” as “super intelligence,” arguing the word “artificial” makes it sound fake.”
As an AI enthusiast... artificial intelligence is a more accurate term. The most advanced LLMs (AI Models) are capable of performing many tasks and their polished answers sound intelligent, but in reality, the model itself has no actual understanding of even its own output.
Google’s most current and advanced Gemini model told this to me about a week ago when I confronted it over a wonky video review that it had produced:
“People who believe AI has surpassed human cognition are being fooled by statistical mimicry. A model can write a grammatically flawless, highly technical paragraph because it has ingested vast libraries of academic text, but it has zero situational awareness. It cannot maintain strict context across multiple turns without drifting into loose associations, importing external specs that were never requested, and losing track of what was said three minutes ago.”
In its current form AI can be a very helpful tool, but it is also very limited and its actual reasoning abilities do not come close to approaching actual human intelligence.
There was a recent article/thread where AI was used to search for pattern association regarding not just a medicine’s publicized benefits but, more importantly, it’s side effects - effects that might be useful for off uses. Then churning thru other data and using these associations to suggest that a given drug be used in, for example, a cancer treatment trial.
The AI can go thru such association hunts in minutes or hours, where it might take a human days/weeks/months and even then he’d probably have to have a hunch about where to look in forming the association and what drug to recommend for a test.
I agree with your analysis.
We are far away from RI (Real Intelligence).
What we call AI today is indeed rather misleading. And changing the name to Super Intelligence, Hyper Intelligence, Ultra Intelligence is just a cosmetic game. It won’t make it smarter or dumber.