Monday, October 21, 2024

AI: "Machines of Loving Grace" by Anthropic CEO

interesting blog post from founder/CEO of one most prominent AI companies,
(in size of an essay or small book)

Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace

"most people are underestimating just how radical the upside of AI could be &
most people are underestimating how bad the risks could be."

using term "powerful AI" instead "AGI"

  • In terms of pure intelligence4, it is smarter than a Nobel Prize winner across most relevant fields – biology, programming, math, engineering, writing, etc. This means it can prove unsolved mathematical theorems, write extremely good novels, write difficult codebases from scratch, etc.

Dario Amodei - Wikipedia

Dario Amodei (born 1983) is an Italian-American artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, the company behind the large language model series Claude AI. He was previously the vice president of research at OpenAI.

CaltechStanford UniversityPrinceton University (PhD)


Anthropic PBC is a U.S.-based artificial intelligence (AI) public-benefit startup founded in 2021. It researches and develops AI to "study their safety properties at the technological frontier" and use this research to deploy safe, reliable models for the public.[5][6][7] Anthropic has developed a family of large language models (LLMs) named Claude as a competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini.