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Donald Trump has announced a bizarre change to the term used for AI, for reasons which remain unclear.
The US President has continued to make controversial decisions throughout his second term in office.
In the past week, he has been criticized by the public and news outlets after choosing to ban certain publications from the White House.
The biggest American news outlets have now responded by boycotting coverage of the President - this includes the Big 5 of ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, and NBC.
In protest, none of them sent cameramen or reporters to cover yesterday's UN General Assembly event.
Trump appeared and delivered an address at the event, announcing a new name for artificial intelligence (AI), after claiming that the term makes the tech 'sound fake'.
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Speaking in New York on Tuesday (September 22), Trump revealed: "Welcome to the new world of super intelligence - SI.
"From this point forward, all of the United States' documents, and hopefully the world's, will be changed to use the more accurate term 'super' as opposed to 'artificial'. So it's 'super intelligence'," he explained.
Some of those close to the President began using the term, despite experts telling the BBC that it probably won't gain popularity across the world.
This is because the term is normally used to describe more advanced systems.
Eagle-eyed social media users will notice that AI isn't the first thing renamed by Trump, who recently branded Lake Ontario 'Lake America', while creatively calling the Gulf of Mexico the 'Gulf of America'.
President Trump asked his followers to vote for new names for AI on social media, with options including 'supreme intelligence' and 'extreme intelligence' among others.
Scientific research, also known as polls on Truth Social, revealed that the winning new term was 'super intelligence'.
While Trump announced the change, the reasoning behind it remains unknown.
The original term, AI, is used to refer to computer technology that lets machines carry out tasks that usually need human thinking.
The term already has a meaning in the tech world, originating from author and philosopher Nick Bostrom in the 2010s.
Super intelligence is an idea of an 'intellect' that is superior to humans, which remains hypothetical, though according to digital ethics lecturer Simon Coghlan from The University of Melbourne, the rebranding is 'misleading'.
The term usually refers to a system that can improve by itself, essentially technology that would be more powerful than AI.
Coghlan explained: "I doubt 'SI' will stick, in part because it exaggerates the current capacities of AI,
"A superintelligent system, if it came about, would be regarded by experts as the most consequential technology ever made."
It's important to note that not all AI platforms today are capable of super intelligence, a term which may be best reserved for future generations of the tech.
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