It seems possible to me that it could be the similarity of the current hardware to computers.

The PS3 and Xbox One were much less PC like than the current gen.

Someone needs to hack them and have their AI guru tell them all to wear orange and pointy tin-foil hats.

The current situation with the Republicans in power and willing to support literally anything that Trump does, is not healthy.

We've got the AI companies themselves screaming out to be regulated due to the danger, and Trump instead refusing to do so and being accelerationist.

Trump is becoming increasingly unhinged, and not just in a har har look at the idiot kind of a way. Yesterday he decided to stab Ukraine (& Europe) in the back to buy diesel from Russia, when he could instead have bought it from a friendly country like Canada, or just have stopped US exports. When your commander in chief is providing financial aid to your enemy, then things have crossed a line ...

I sort of like it.

It's a easy way to make classic games with no ads or bullshit.

Just for my own use. It's easier than wading through the app store.

By classic I mean something like the ASCII robots game where you make them crash into each other (which I did and now have been playing).

Isn't Broadcom a public company, not a private equity fund?

So end neutrality on fiber? I don't like that at all.

If you are an old guy with a failing heart, don't go for a heart transplant - go for a full body transplant.

Maybe just keep your brain and take the new head too, to avoid that wizened head on gen Z body look.

On a more serious note, maybe there is something to the blood boy thing? Is there an anti-aging treatment to be had?

I would think the first step is insurance companies backing out of insuring.

Is that happening?

the electoral college was about preserving slavery.

I'm not sure why Trump wants to rebrand AI as SI, or even what SI is meant to refer to.

In the current lingo we have LLMs=AI -> AGI -> ASI, with only OpenAI wanting to call today's LLMs "AGI", despite being sub-human in many capabilities such as ability to learn and creativity, as well as many specific areas (lack of generality).

One reason the term "AI" seems to have taken off, is because people are, maybe unwittingly, using it to refer to a whole range of largely unrelated things, not just LLMs, but also image/video generators, and things like AlphaGo and AlphaFold whole only commonality with LLMs is that they are based on neural networks. I'd bet much of the public don't even realize these are neural networks, or include them - it's just all modern computer magic - "AI".

So, is Trump's SI really intended to replace this use of AI as a catch-all term (your image generator is now "super intelligent"), or is this meant to refer to LLMs, or AGI perhaps?

Oddly the one thing that Trump does not appear to be focusing on is actual (future) super-intelligence (ASI). He seems to be wanting to rebrand what we have today, or some part(s) of it (LLMs).

Yes, but it only mentions it as a case study in what NOT to believe, and points out where it is wrong.

Which seems reasonable.

All of science knew it - not just me! The acorn worm research is from 2003.

You're snarky response is misunderstanding what is new in this research - its not that our front/back brain correspond to the ancient front/back split nervous system, but much more specifically that they stay separate during early embryonic development - this is what is new information.

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You're confusing Ernst Haeckel's original theory of "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" as a "law" (false), with the reality that embryonic development nonetheless does expose some of our evolutionary past.

e.g.

When chickens evolved from dinosaurs they lost their teeth, but they didn't lose the dinosaur DNA that creates teeth - what changed was gene expression controlling embryonic tooth development and sequencing. You might have expected that evolution would have just disabled development of teeth altogether, even if the genes for them were still there, but evidentially that is not what happened, and that is not an isolated case.

> Perhaps... but I don't think any part of the brain stem is creating poetry.

That's not what it is saying - the two nervous systems are 1) the front part, originally just concerned with sensing, that has now evolved into our mid+forebrain, including our neo-cortex which is the bit creating poetry, and 2) back part, our brain stem (+spinal cord) controlling motor and autonomous (breathing, heartrate, etc) functions.

? "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" is not an evolutionary advantage. It is a biological hypothesis

I wouldn't even call it a hypothesis, and I'm not aware of anyone ever saying it was an "advantage" (advantageous for what?!).

Still, it is an interesting reality that some of our evolutionary past is preserved in our DNA and can be seen in this embryonic sequencing.

It's a reflection of the way DNA, gene expression, and embryonic sequencing, work, and the way evolution acts upon that.