Is AI progress exponential? Anthropic's own research disagrees
When the company selling you a technology and the company’s own research lab disagree about how fast that technology is improving, the disagreement is worth more than either side’s headline claim. That is the situation Anthropic finds itself in this month. Its chief executive, Dario Amodei, has published an essay arguing that artificial intelligence is on an exponential curve toward something he calls “Powerful AI”.
- ▪When the company selling you a technology and the company’s own research lab disagree about how fast that technology is improving, the disagreement is worth more than either side’s headline claim.
- ▪That is the situation Anthropic finds itself in this month.
- ▪Its chief executive, Dario Amodei, has published an essay arguing that artificial intelligence is on an exponential curve toward something he calls “Powerful AI”.
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When the company selling you a technology and the company’s own research lab disagree about how fast that technology is improving, the disagreement is worth more than either side’s headline claim. That is the situation Anthropic finds itself in this month. Its chief executive, Dario Amodei, has published an essay arguing that artificial intelligence is on an exponential curve toward something he calls “Powerful AI”. The system cards for Anthropic’s two newest frontier models, written by Anthropic’s own researchers, say they cannot find evidence of that acceleration. For UK businesses deciding how much of their strategy to bet on imminent superintelligence, that contradiction is the most useful piece of information to come out of the lab in months.
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