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

elmer2

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

exabrial

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

Is this to strengthen financials? Less burn on training?

aczerepinski

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

winstonwinston

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

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

conqrr

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

s1artibartfast

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

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...

encyclopedism

Everyone, collectively, stop thinking about neural networks too 'hard'. Whilst you're at it stop doing maths too!

LogicFailsMe

Those regulated models aren't just going to capture themselves!

yomismoaqui

Good luck convincing the chinese labs.

kvetching

this is the wholly wrong approach. We need to advance as fast as possible, and harden our systems as much as possible. That's the only way to prevent another actor from "taking over the internet".

bhouston

CEO trying to avoid government regulation in his industry says what?

wg0

Then slow down your bots too please. I deployed a website last night. 10 out of 11 GB of bandwidth went to Claude bots alone with more than 90k requests. Hypocrites hyping for the IPO. PS: True story.

adolfojp

Sad to see discourse on this website reduced to competitive cynicism.

hughes

This is a paywalled article that is just a summary of the free original source[1]. [1] https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier

Biologist123

The devil’s own horseman, whipping the horses on: “faster, faster, more compute! But I might also just ride this carriage over the cliff!”. Laughing maniacally as he goes. Which one is it, Dario?

pattt

I understand they have been criticized because they play capitalism particularly well, but there are many good points in the original article and it didn’t sound like an outright PR.