Let’s travel to the imaginary world where the subculture IS the culture, and EVERYONE worldwide stops using the term “artificial intelligence, or AI, and instead refers to “super intelligence,” or SI.
That would solve a problem I pointed out long ago. So long ago that phrases such as “State-of-the-art, frontier AI” had POSITIVE connotations. They didn’t create mental pictures of doom and destruction.
The problem? Because you and your friends are so used to seeing the letters “AI” that you know to pronounce each letter separately, as in A I. But most people don’t know this. Really, they don’t. So when they see those two capital letters next to each other, they think they’re supposed to emit a high-pitched scream.
If we change AI to SI, that particular problem is solved. Either we all sound like snakes, or we all do what auto-correct keeps on doing to me and pronounce the term like the word sí.
And all the leading tech giants in the U.S. will sound like Mexicans.
Looks like someone didn’t think this through.
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