With US President Donald Trump recently pushing the use of “superintelligence” (SI) instead of artificial intelligence (AI) in national discourse, the acronym has gained unprecedented attention. It is the right acronym but the wrong meaning. In my opinion, SI should stand for “self-intelligence”.
It probably explains why academics, critics and even major AI companies are calling for a temporary pause in AI development. They must have realised the technology’s current trajectory is headed down the wrong path.
Producing an intelligent answer is vastly different from independently acquiring knowledge, deciding what to do and acting appropriately in an unpredictable world. I believe the next great challenge for AI is moving from machine learning towards achieving machine self-intelligence.
