Marina asked me how "smart" compared to "stupid". It definitely compares with stupid in the retrievals - dictionaries range from around 50 to up to 1000 synonyms, etc. Tthat big number is the power thesaurus so not sure how many there really are. And remember smart is an adjective and a verb - to smart - i.e. sting, burn, hurt, etc.
This is word very comparable to stupid in that it is used a lot today - smart phone, smart chips, smart shopping - smart is a handy word to use. It gives status to a product. It has become a term for fast, simple, intuitive, connected. So products are getting smart like we are.
Is artificial intelligence more than "smart?" There's a promise of reasoning, making decisions and solving problems. That's how humans want to be - that's smart. So how intelligent and smart will artificial intelligence be? to answer that look to the new expression- "super intelligent". Ouch for human intelligence. And go check out super smart - only a small percentage of humans fit that category. The expression outperforms smart in the Good Books Ngram Viewer whereas super stupid has a much lower score than the others.
It takes us to the place in the dictionary where everything now starts with"super" and "hyper." Where supersmart has synonyms like ultra smart, hyperintelligent and so on.
Smart and stupid have similar entries in the google Books Ngram Viewer. Here's the link to the Google Books Ngram Viewer
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