Naming debate redux: the real point is admitting models are already superhuman
jd_pressman · x · 2026-10-24
Follow-up to jdpressman's take on Trump's push to rename AI as "Super Intelligence": he says he isn't cheesy enough to adopt the SI label himself, but there is a current lack of acknowledgment that existing models are already superhuman — and prompting people to face that, when it's clearly true, is a clever marketing strategy. He adds that Trump is "a very good marketer."
The exchange clarifies the core argument: the fight isn't over the name, but over whether the industry formally admits today's models already exceed human capability.
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