US President says he will ban the term 'artificial intelligence'

rbanffy

I’ll continue using the term, the same way I will continue deadnaming Twitter.

tartuffe78

Finally, something voters care about.

A_D_E_P_T

Those .si domains his cronies are squatting on aren't selling, I guess.

dofm

This is because someone's told him he probably can't rename New Mexico?

xeonmc

I propose a new term -- Synthetic Intelligence (SI)

mindcrime

Trump doesn't have any authority to ban the term "Artificial Intelligence". The First Amendment makes that clear. All he can do is mandate that government employees use his favored term.

PowerElectronix

Abhorrent Intelligence it is, then.

everdrive

More meaningless symbolic gestures rather than any sort of actual policy.

zombocomvibes

AI is a very bad and inaccurate term!

matt3210

LOL wut? What has this country come to

mellosouls

Trump's shenanigans may be funny/deranged depending on your POV, but his message seems to be that calling it Artificial implies limitations not representative of its capabilities - and he is absolutely correct. ofc his corollary points about implications for American power are debatable; but we are now living for the first time in our history with an alien intelligence that in some cases exceeds our own, and its reasonable to consider how we deal with that on a cultural and political level.

kokanee

So now both halves of the name "OpenAI" are deprecated

RajT88

Renamed "America Intelligence"?

spaceman_2020

Can't wait to cross Trump Ocean, land in Gulf of America, walk through New America (New Mexico) and shake Trump's hand for this incredible allocation of resources

egberts1

They shall hereby be termed as "superior digital librarian with a spastic analyst streak"

qalmakka

I'm puzzled about why people were so vehement at roasting Joe Biden for his clear advanced age, while Trump is blatantly suffering from dementia or some similar mental impairment. His speech is way more rambling and incoherent that anything Joe Biden ever went through, and it doesn't get better when he's in a more familiar setting - quite the opposite, he gets more and more nonsensical whenever is giving an interview to anybody

mullingitover

Historic, unprecedented failure of leadership. The price of diesel skyrocketing[1]. The producer price index, a leading indicator of inflation, doing the same[2]. Consumer sentiment cratering[3]. Real weekly earnings plunging[4]. These things aren't even normally the president's direct fault, but in this case it 1000% is. So it's understandable why he's desperately jangling every set of keys he can get his hands on as the mid-term elections are happening. It can and will get dumber for this lame duck. [1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GASDESW [2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PPIACO [3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UMCSENT [4] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=20eS1

sharkjacobs

I mean this is partly deranged megalomania but it's also partly a shibboleth right? You can signal that you're a true believer loyalist by not using the verboten term

the_gastropod

The party of free speech, ladies and gentlemen.