In July, there was a sudden spike in .SI (Slovenia) domain name sales, and now that Trump has announced AI will be rebranded SI, their owners are attempting to resell them for millions of dollars.

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[–] 50 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

No one is going to use "superintelligence".

There's too much culture surrounding "AI".

This is like Twitter renaming themselves "x".

What a stupid grift lol

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  • [–] 25 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Also genuinely only idiots think it surpasses human intelligence in any way whatsoever.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    I understand the anti Ai sentiment, but "any way" is quite broad. Yes calling it super intelligence right now is a grift, but saying current frontier models are not better than humans in any respect is just as ridiculous. They are better at reviewing code for example, can make sense of large sections of unintelligible spaghetti like no human can.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    There's some cleverness behind it. The government is legally mandated to only refer to AI as SI, so that will theoretically boost the value of the squatted domains among the people obsessed with the stuff.

    Even a gold rush can enrich a shovel salesman.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    This is like Twitter renaming themselves "x".

    Not really a good example, seeing as they were pretty successful, even if it a terrible name.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Were they? They took one of the most recognizable brands of the century and made something people tend to avoid referring to because it's hard to.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (3 children)

    Im not aware of any examples of people refusing to refer to it...?

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