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特朗普试图重新命名人工智能,但这做法显得极为生硬做作Trump’s attempt to rename AI is looking awfully artificial

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唐纳德·特朗普总统擅长用语言来打击对手。他首次成功当选总统时,就使用了诸如“小马可”和“奸诈的希拉里”这类绰号;他还把原本用来形容虚假媒体的“假新闻”一词变成了攻击整个新闻界的贬义词。

President Donald Trump has a knack for turning words against his enemies. His first successful presidential run was built on monikers like "Little Marco" and "Crooked Hillary"; he changed "fake news" from a phrase describing scammy media outlets to a derogatory term for the press at large.

最近几周,他显然决定用同样的手段来推广人工智能——将他希望大力发展的技术称为“超级智能”,而把“人工”一词变成新的贬义词,还将反对者称作“敌人”。不少人工智能领域的顶尖人物也附和他。不过,他在语言层面的这场博弈可并不容易……

Over the past few weeks, he's clearly decided he can work the same magic to promote artificial intelligence - branding a technology he wants to accelerate "super", while turning "artificial" into his latest go-to pejorative and declaring resisters "THE ENEMY." Some of the biggest names in AI are going along with him. But he's picked a tough linguistic batt …