Oct 15, 2026 · 4 min · 4 segments
Donald Trump told the UN General Assembly that artificial intelligence would now be called super intelligence, saying the word artificial makes AI sound fake. The word artificial describes where the…
Before smartphones, there were smart bombs.
The Gulf War made smart the everyday word for guided weapons, and in the years after, the same word sold connected phones and homes.
It described an engineering change.
Sensors and networked software let a system read conditions and respond automatically, and NIST still uses smart in that sense for connected infrastructure.
Smart is also a word for people.
Attached to a thermostat, it lent the device the praise we give a capable colleague, so a connected machine sounded competent, and a predictive one sounded like it exercised judgment.
The code held because it spared the seller an explanation.
Nobody needed to understand networking to want a smart home.
Competence invites delegation, and the research on that handoff runs both ways.
In one set of experiments, people gave the same advice more weight when it was labeled as an algorithm's.
In another, people who watched an algorithm air turned away from it, even when it still beat the human forecaster.
Before smartphones, there were smart bombs.
The Gulf War made smart the everyday word for guided weapons, and in the years after, the same word sold connected phones and homes.
It described an engineering change.
Sensors and networked software let a system read conditions and respond automatically, and NIST still uses smart in that sense for connected infrastructure.
Smart is also a word for people.
Attached to a thermostat, it lent the device the praise we give a capable colleague, so a connected machine sounded competent, and a predictive one sounded like it exercised judgment.
The code held because it spared the seller an explanation.
Nobody needed to understand networking to want a smart home.
Competence invites delegation, and the research on that handoff runs both ways.
In one set of experiments, people gave the same advice more weight when it was labeled as an algorithm's.
In another, people who watched an algorithm air turned away from it, even when it still beat the human forecaster.
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