无论你的政治立场如何，关于唐纳德·特朗普总统，有一点是我们都能达成共识的：当这位先生想给某人或某事起个绰号时……就让他尽情发挥吧。不幸的是，他给人工智能起的新名字“超级智能”是一个罕见的失误。我有一个更好的主意。在与人工智能领袖共进午餐后，特朗普与达里奥·阿莫迪、埃隆·马斯克、马克·扎克伯格等人举行了一场新闻发布会，宣布了一项行政命令，规定联邦政府今后将把“人工智能”称为“超级智能”。
Regardless of your politics, there's something about President Donald Trump we can all agree on: When the man wants to come up with a nickname for someone or something … let him cook. Unfortunately, "Super Intelligence," his new name for artificial intelligence, is a rare miss. I have a better idea. After a lunch with AI leaders, Trump held a press briefing with Dario Amodei, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and others to announce an executive order stating that the federal government will now refer to "artificial intelligence" as "super intelligence".
特朗普解释道：“‘超级’这个词是最好的，也是最简单的。”你可以想象，特朗普为什么认为“AI”这个词名声不好。民调 consistently 显示，美国人讨厌人工智能。原因显而易见：人们担心它会夺走工作，取代人类的创造力，而且没人想住在数据中心附近。哦对了，还有人工智能可能会让我们全人类灭亡这件事。更别提那些由人工智能生成的熟食店菜单了。
"The word super is the best word of all, and it's the simplest," Trump explained. You can imagine why Trump thinks the term "AI" has a bad rap. Polls consistently show that Americans hate AI. The reasons are obvious: People worry it will take jobs, replace human creativity, and no one wants to live near data centers. Oh yeah, and there's the whole thing about AI possibly killing us all. And don't even get us started on the AI-generated deli menus.
特朗普并不是唯一一个认为人工智能可能需要一次更可爱、更友好的形象改造的人。Meta 的 Muse 有一个毛茸茸、圆滚滚、类似 Labubu 风格的小可爱动画角色来代表人工智能代理。（请注意：你可以将 Muse 中的角色改成任何你想要的样子；我把它改成了马克·扎克伯格的照片，这样我在使用它时就不会忘记自己正在把数据交给谁。）
Trump isn't the only person who thinks AI might need a more cuddly, friendly makeover. Meta's Muse has a fuzzy wuzzy blobby Labubu-esque lil' sweetiepie animated character to represent the AI agent. (Please note: you can change the character on Muse to whatever you want; I made mine a picture of Mark Zuckerberg so I don't ever forget who I'm giving my data to while I'm using it.)
但为什么“超级智能”是替代“人工智能”的错误选择呢？因为问题不在于“人工”这个词——而在于“智能”。“智能”暗示着人类的思维——而认为人工智能或超级智能在进行“智能”活动，坦白说，是对我们（人类）智能的侮辱。是的，我们知道它是人工的。这没关系。它“超级”也没好到哪里去。因此，我提议一个全新的术语：Robo Doodad，简称 R.D.
But why is "super intelligence" the wrong choice to replace "artificial intelligence?" Because the problem isn't the word "artificial" — it's "intelligence." Intelligence implies human thinking — and the idea that AI or SI is doing "intelligence" is, frankly, insulting to our (human) intelligence. Yes, we know it's artificial. That's fine. It being super isn't any better. Which is why I propose a whole new term: Robo Doodad, or R.D.
这击中了两个主要要点：它是机器人，而且它是个小玩意儿。Robo Doodad 不会抢走你的工作。没人会试图和他们的 Robo Doodad 聊天机器人结婚。
That hits two main points: it's robo, and it's a doodad. Robo Doodad isn't going to take your job. No one's going to try to marry their robo doodad chat.
建造大型小玩意中心听起来既酷又有趣。特朗普在这里将人工智能重新命名的直觉非常准确，但他做得还不够。在命名这件事上，我们应该成为加速主义者，从第一性原理出发重构这个术语。我们必须将人工智能重新命名为“机器人小玩意”。
Building massive doodad centers sounds cool and fun. Trump's instincts here to rename AI are spot-on, but he's not going far enough. We should be accelerationists when it comes to the new name, rebuilding the term from first principles. We must rename AI as Robo Doodad.