I think the explicit suggestion is to retreat to a more specific term rather than fight against the co-option of superintelligence to hype spikily human-level AI.
I agree that superintelligence has the right usage historically, and the right intuitive connotation.
Superman isn’t slightly stronger than the strongest human, let alone the average. He’s in a different category. That’s what’s evoked. But technically super just means better, so slightly better than human technically qualifies. So I see the term getting steadily co-opted for marketing, and agree we should have a separate term.
I think the explicit suggestion is to retreat to a more specific term rather than fight against the co-option of superintelligence to hype spikily human-level AI.
I agree that superintelligence has the right usage historically, and the right intuitive connotation.
Superman isn’t slightly stronger than the strongest human, let alone the average. He’s in a different category. That’s what’s evoked. But technically super just means better, so slightly better than human technically qualifies. So I see the term getting steadily co-opted for marketing, and agree we should have a separate term.