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Anthropic CEO Says It's Time to Slow AI Model Advances

20 points sbulaev 53 minutes ago 16 comments

elmer2 42 minutes ago | parent

If they do this, it will just give China time to catch up.

achow 18 minutes ago | parent

China will also slow down. They are catching up with SOTA models due to distillation https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa...

VirusNewbie 17 minutes ago | parent

China doesn't have the talent. They're just distilling or even sometimes ROUTING requests to American companies. 996 drones aren't going to make the giant breakthroughs.

atmosx 13 minutes ago | parent

lol. Every time one of these ppl says something like that, it's because he just came out of a meeting where he learned that his direct US rival is beating him... So he is suddenly interested in regulation. We've been there with Altman, Musk, etc already. But at the time Anthropic was ahead :-)

exabrial 26 minutes ago | parent

Meaning: slow his competitors; mainly because anthropic stopped focusing on product and quality. Instead their big push right now is preventing others from catching up.

throw03172019 18 minutes ago | parent

Is this to strengthen financials? Less burn on training?

aczerepinski 17 minutes ago | parent

I was prompted to accept binding arbitration in order to read this, so I didn't. Feel free to summarize.

winstonwinston 16 minutes ago | parent

Why makes no sense at all unless you are very naive trusting they would not jump straight to the endgame if it was possible with the technology available.

misnome 15 minutes ago | parent

Sounds like they hit a wall and are looking to score points for it.

conqrr 15 minutes ago | parent

Meaning they realized they hit a wall. The next new model isn't that much better than the last in quality.

s1artibartfast 13 minutes ago | parent

Good.

It will take decades of economic and social innovation to catch up with current model capabilities.

No upside is worth the potential downsides of getting this wrong, even if you set aside all the x-risk stuff.

5555watch 13 minutes ago | parent

Recalling their recent misuse report [0], I kind of agree with them. And performance/intelligence wise I think we are already at quite a nice local optima.

[0]: https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-septemb...

karim79 11 minutes ago | parent

Yes. We must always trust these ass hats because they have our well-being at heart.