An AI discussion of the editorial "Between the Lab and the Lexicon: John McCarthy, Semantic Drift, and the Pivot to "Super Intelligence," by William L. Weaver at https://williamlweaver.substack.com/p/between-the-lab-and-the-lexicon
Words carry architectural weight. The federal decision to discard "Artificial Intelligence" in favor of "Super Intelligence" (SI) seeks to shed the fatalistic doom narratives of recent years in pursuit of national technological acceleration. But in the rush to rebrand, have we lost the foundational humility John McCarthy brought to the discipline in 1955?
In our latest editorial, "Between the Lab and the Lexicon: John McCarthy, Semantic Drift, and the Pivot to 'Super Intelligence,'", we trace the journey from Dartmouth and Philadelphia to the UN General Assembly and Capitol Hill. While marketing invariably captures the public square, software remains bound to the physical laws of computation and the empirical reality of the lab.
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