According to Dario Amodei, this is the year we are getting New Science. And apparently he believes in Dyson Spheres too. How do we feel about that?
Anthropic is not special. They're doing the LLM thing like everybody else. The Godfather of AI, Yann LeCun himself, said LLMs were a dead end on this front. But even if he didn't chime in, it's your job to show they'll lead to AGI, it's your job to show us how, not my job to show you it won't.
Considering data centers tend to harm the local communities, yeah, I can't blame them for wanting data centers out of their community. Make sure they don't break the law to poison the air of local communities like Elon Musk's data center did. Fix the other electricity loopholes. Make sure they don't destroy local water tables. Tax them appropriately. Don't let them lie about employment opportunities... And maybe then we can talk about whether they should be built.
When a CEO tells you who he is, believe him the first time.
I thought we had all learned this lesson with Elon Musk, who also pretended to be the good guy. We've already got a ton of red flags about Dario Amodei.
"Anthropic publicly praised President Trump’s AI Action Plan," said CEO Dario Amodei.
"We have been supportive of the President’s efforts to expand energy provision in the US in order to win the AI race," he continued, apparently talking about Trump's new anti green energy, pro fossil fuel program.
We are not "moving towards AGI" in any way with any modern technology, in the same way that we are not "moving towards FTL travel" because a car company added cylinders to an engine.
The real "AI" dangers are people like Eli Yudkowski, a man who scares vulnerable people, sexually abuses them, and has spawned at least one murderous cult.
Dario is one of the biggest AGI bullshit peddlers.
In October 2023, Amodei joined The Logan Bartlett show, saying that he “didn’t like the term AGI” because, and I shit you not, “...because we’re closer to the kinds of things that AGI is pointing at,” making it “no longer a useful term.” He said that there was a “future point” where a model could “build dyson spheres around the sun and calculate the meaning of life,” before rambling incoherently and suggesting that these things were both very close and far away at the same time. He also predicted that “no sooner than 2025, maybe 2026” that AI would “really invent new science.”
Anthropic's "ethical" concerns were performative. They only fearmonger about fictional things that will make their product sound powerful (read: worth throwing money into).
They try to scare people with fictional stories of AGI, a thing that isn't happening, while ignoring widespread CSAM and sexual harassment generation, a thing that is happening.
Anthropic is now playing Good Cop in a charade. They don't care about ethics.
Anthropic’s CEO admits compromising with authoritarian regimes to secure AI funding
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei backs President Trump on AI policy, pushes back on criticism
I don't know which angle is more interesting, the fact your "compassion and empathy" started with implying people who disagree with you are stupid, or the fact that we both know that a hidden feature tangentially "relating to" accessibility isn't remotely the same as something that's crucial...
Are you impressed by the cleverness of Palantir too?
It's very strange you'd come into a thread with nothing to offer except Two Minutes Hate against the Bad Country, but can't be bothered to think about what the thread is about. Nationalism is a cancer of the soul.
The AI described in this article is already whispering in people's ears, so the psychosis might happen sooner than you'd expect.