Trump orders US government to call AI ‘Super Intelligence’
The US executive branch is no longer acknowledging the existence of "artificial intelligence.
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The US executive branch is no longer acknowledging the existence of "artificial intelligence." Going forward, official policy websites, policy documents, and press releases will refer only to "Super Intelligence," thanks to a new executive ordersigned by President Donald Trump.
"The word super is the best word of all, and it's the simplest," Trump said at an event announcing the launch of America.gov earlier on Tuesday, and said Chinese President Xi Jinping, who visited the White House last week, "loves it," too. "We don't want to hear artificial. Because it's not artificial. It's very powerful, it's very brilliant. It's going to mostly be …
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