I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
I recommend watching The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist. A really interesting take on AI, the future, and where all of this could be heading.
🃏 Every time you shuffle a deck of cards, you're probably creating an order that has never existed before.
There are 8 × 10⁶⁷ possible card orders - far more than the estimated number of atoms on Earth.
🗿 It took archaeologists nearly 100 years to discover 430 Nazca geoglyphs in Peru.
Then they used AI...
In just 6 months, AI helped discover 303 more - almost doubling the total.
Some depict parrots, cats, monkeys, killer whales holding knives, and even decapitated heads.
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