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Good morning Brew Daily Show. I'm Neil Freiman. And I'm Toby Howell. Today, the best college in the United States is no longer Princeton.
Then Peloton is out on cycling and all in on running. It's Wednesday, September 23rd. Let's ride.
This is what happens when you hand your kid a Rubik's Cube instead of an iPad. A six-year-old girl in China just set the new women's world record for solving a Rubik's Cube, averaging under 4.5 seconds over five solves. It's not just talent, but a lot of hard work. Zhizhi, as she's nicknamed, practices every day for two to three hours and has mastered over 1,300 Rubik's Cube solving algorithms. Congrats to Zhizhi, but I am worried about her likelihood of developing carpal tunnel.
I obviously went through a RubisCues phase growing up. My fastest was sub one minute, which I was very proud of, but clearly not on GZ's level. This also set up a debate amongst your friends, though, about what age you peak at certain disciplines in life. There's not a lot that you can reach the summit at age six, but... Chess is up there. Esports are up there. I guess speed cubing as well. It also got us thinking about what you pick out later in life because we're past six years old. Experience definitely helps in things like law and medicine. I'd toss crosswords out there too, just an accumulation of knowledge. So your best days are still ahead of you, Neil.
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Artificial intelligence is getting a rebrand, not from a horde of McKinsey consultants, but straight from the mouth of the president. Trump told the United Nations General Assembly in New York yesterday that the U.S. government will start calling AI superintelligence, aka SI, arguing the artificial branding makes the technology sound fake. He also posted polls on social media asking if people preferred the term superior intelligence. They did not. He followed that up by dismissing the AI doomsday warning, saying America won't stifle something, quote, bigger than the industrial revolution. That came an hour after UN Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez kicked off the day by painting an ominous picture of what could go wrong with AI, saying life and death decisions must never be surrendered to machines.
Killer robots must have no place in our future. The clash over AI was just one part of a combative 37-minute speech for Trump that also went on a meandering geopolitical tour. Trump called for the complete economic isolation of Iran and threatened to, quote, annihilate the country if it doesn't reach a deal, though he predicted one would come soon. And all eyes are looking ahead to tomorrow when Chinese President Xi Jinping visits the White House. On the menu are tariffs, rare earths, Iran, Taiwan, and of course, AI, sorry, S.I., Neil, a lot going on, but let's start back at superintelligence. It's a little unclear what Trump's motivations are here. Why do you think he's pushing for this rebrand?
Because he is an AI bull, as we say, and the brand of artificial intelligence is so bad. We're seeing pushback against data centers all over the country. We're seeing pushback now against the AI safety implications. He understands that AI has a marketing problem, and so Trump always changes the name of things, and hopefully he thinks he will get his way.
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