05:03 · 2026-11-07
A snarky jab at the fashion cycle of AI branding: the industry raced to rebrand 'AI' as 'SI', and Hon Weng Chong is betting the bandwagon empties as fast as it filled. He has standing to be salty — Cortical Labs has its whole CL1 wetware pitch built around synthetic biological intelligence, so the borrowed acronym must feel like logo theft. Worth remembering that no model gets smarter because the label changes: 'AGI', 'superintelligence' and 'SI' are positioning moves, not technical milestones. In our view he is right on the mechanics — terminology tracks hype, not capability — though what actually sticks may be neither term.
Waiting for the chameleons to abandon the term SI and return back to AI.