On Tuesday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicted that AI models may surpass human capabilities "in almost everything" within two to three years, according to a Wall Street Journal interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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Amodei co-founded Anthropic in 2021 with his sister Daniela Amodei and five other former OpenAI employees. Not long after, Anthropic emerged as a strong technological competitor to OpenAI's AI products (such as GPT-4 and ChatGPT). Most recently, its Claude 3.5 Sonnet model has remained highly regarded among some AI users and highly ranked among AI benchmarks.
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Even with his dramatic predictions, Amodei distanced himself from a term for this advanced labor-replacing AI favored by Altman, "artificial general intelligence" (AGI), calling it in a separate CNBC interview from the same event in Switzerland a marketing term.Instead, he prefers to describe future AI systems as a "country of geniuses in a data center," he told CNBC.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 26, @04:57AM (2 children)
When the bubble is at the precipice of bursting, add more hot air.
I don't understand how it's a winning tactic. I guess the exit strategy is about to be executed, just one more pump.
(Score: 2, Informative) by khallow on Sunday January 26, @03:49PM
He put his company in the news. And Davos probably is prime hunting grounds for finding gullible people with money. There's more life to the present bubble and there will be more bubbles to come.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 28, @04:51AM
Is today the start of the AI bubble bursting? Chinese DeepSeek hit the news with a LLM that is claimed to have cost all of $6M to train (almost nothing compared to the current big players). Market valuation of several big tech companies tumbled. BBC ran a nice series of short articles at https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cjr85l2e4l4t [bbc.com] Here's a sample of one article
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Hartree on Sunday January 26, @06:05AM
Sounds like it's almost time to buy a few put options.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by VLM on Sunday January 26, @03:59PM (2 children)
We have that already, and it certainly didn't fix anything.
The problem with left coast tech is we're wasting the best brains the system can produce on trying to sell 1% more ads, which on a civilization scale is pretty useless. Brains go where the paychecks are, mostly, and we're wasting both the paychecks and the brains on relatively useless problems, so I assume we'll waste AI power on useless problems.
Nobody will pay to roof or paint the public schools for poor people today; I think we can safely assume "super AI" with its power bills will similarly not be used to educate poor people or whatever happy pie in the sky nonsense is being declared.
(Score: 0, Troll) by khallow on Sunday January 26, @08:23PM
We can waste those brains in ways that don't even generate that considerable economic value.
How many of the "best brains" are needed to roof or paint a building?
While true, it's not the fault of businesses paying good money for brains. Someone else did that.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday January 27, @04:20PM
All you need to do is build a market for creating roof-top advertisements. That way Google, Apple Maps, or even Open Source Maps will be full of advertisements too!
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 28, @09:48AM