These could be jobs that are just not as exposed to AI augmentation/automation? I'm pretty bullish on AI but its pretty obvious its strongest PMF right now is in the software industry. Headcount across high-tech…
1. I don't think it'll get acquired by a frontier lab. Frontier labs already focus on robotics with enough effort that acquiring pure-software research IP from a company like this is not very useful. OpenAI has way more…
I disagree with the claim that its sticky, but this is the wrong response. Reductive and doesn't take into account the obvious things (UX, network effects, barrier to entry to use the product). All 3 of these are much…
It always seems smart to be a contrarian/bear, but historically, betting against technology and technological progress is dumb. Not only is he not a shareholder, but based on his opinions, he clearly isn't a user of…
I don't know why you still care about this several decades after graduating. Do you not have an identity outside of graduating from the previously-unsponsored "School of Computer Science"? (By the way, the entire school…
I mean Rust definitely has a better tradeoff than Carbon in this case, re readability/verifiability by a person (and sufficiently good internet training data). I personally think that you _could_ use an LLM to catch…
There is 0 practicality in inventing an entirely new coding language that only one company uses, and you have to teach it to thousands of new engineers. Rust exists and fits the job totally fine and is used in more…
Right, and lets ignore the fact that Meta rocketed up 50% in a month, and the rest of the market is also down ~1% because of crude going up. -4% means nothing in context.
And I'm pretty sure this "29-30 year old who was merely acquihired" probably knows more than these veteran/boomer execs about how to execute a consumer AI product strategy. "Chief AI officer" does not mean he leads AI…
We went from open source Chinese models eating _all_ of frontier labs lunch, to them eating some small extremely niche market of frontier labs. I don't think this will happen, just as Chinese models did not eat…
Ok and they just released Opus 5.5 today which is at or above Fable 5.1 level capability in many tasks, but costs a fraction of the cost and is faster? And this is what, like 3 months after Fable was first released, and…
Clearly no one here has heard of Occams Razor before :P
Nerd sniping the hackernews/twitter crowd with "large scale transformer-based language model alternatives." People don't want to believe something as unsatisfying as "Scaling up LLMs" can yield something as profound as…
People are desperately trying to cope themselves into thinking that there are alternatives to scaling up transformers to AGI/actual competition to OpenAI or Anthropic. Jev, continual learning, linear attention, local…
The short answer is: they need to make money now to fund continued improvements towards AGI. This is extremely obvious and these "well if they had AGI..." arguments are clearly in bad faith. You have to run a legitimate…
If you've read enough lesswrong, this won't be new to you. The strategy always was "become the most capable model lab so that you have leverage to control AI development."
yes that is literally why they are sounding the alarm - because people think AI is a party trick and they aren't taking it seriously enough.
I think you fundamentally misunderstand what kind of company Anthropic is. I'm simply taking the path of least resistance when understanding what people at Anthropic have to say, and basically every public source points…
Code in most organizations is a means to an end to produce an actual product. The job of a SWE is to not produce the most sublime readable code with cute language bells and whistles that you can show off to your other…
Navier Stokes, and _allegedly_ the Hodge Conjecture and Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer.
Yes these guys are completely delusional. 2 years ago a model could barely solve the AMC, 1 year ago it got IMO gold, and this year models have solved multiple millenium problems. Even 1 year ago ai code was just…
This is just completely false lol. They most certainly can make better models - why cant people here just read this for face value? I think anthropic is legitimately concerned about the safety implications of stronger…
Once we have an existence proof of a particular technology, it doesn't take long for it to become economically viable and proliferate. And for something as useful as this, theres a strong economic incentive to get it to…
People seem to be talking about anything except the actual results with this particular announcement. Its still astonishing that any sort of generalized computer program can solve a problem of this magnitude at all.
lol, the "other work" was also probably 95-99% AI generated. By a similar breed of OpenAI (and some Anthropic) models, as well. I dont know why this monumental achievement is being drowned out by some arbitrary drama.…
These could be jobs that are just not as exposed to AI augmentation/automation? I'm pretty bullish on AI but its pretty obvious its strongest PMF right now is in the software industry. Headcount across high-tech…
1. I don't think it'll get acquired by a frontier lab. Frontier labs already focus on robotics with enough effort that acquiring pure-software research IP from a company like this is not very useful. OpenAI has way more…
I disagree with the claim that its sticky, but this is the wrong response. Reductive and doesn't take into account the obvious things (UX, network effects, barrier to entry to use the product). All 3 of these are much…
It always seems smart to be a contrarian/bear, but historically, betting against technology and technological progress is dumb. Not only is he not a shareholder, but based on his opinions, he clearly isn't a user of…
I don't know why you still care about this several decades after graduating. Do you not have an identity outside of graduating from the previously-unsponsored "School of Computer Science"? (By the way, the entire school…
I mean Rust definitely has a better tradeoff than Carbon in this case, re readability/verifiability by a person (and sufficiently good internet training data). I personally think that you _could_ use an LLM to catch…
There is 0 practicality in inventing an entirely new coding language that only one company uses, and you have to teach it to thousands of new engineers. Rust exists and fits the job totally fine and is used in more…
Right, and lets ignore the fact that Meta rocketed up 50% in a month, and the rest of the market is also down ~1% because of crude going up. -4% means nothing in context.
And I'm pretty sure this "29-30 year old who was merely acquihired" probably knows more than these veteran/boomer execs about how to execute a consumer AI product strategy. "Chief AI officer" does not mean he leads AI…
We went from open source Chinese models eating _all_ of frontier labs lunch, to them eating some small extremely niche market of frontier labs. I don't think this will happen, just as Chinese models did not eat…
Ok and they just released Opus 5.5 today which is at or above Fable 5.1 level capability in many tasks, but costs a fraction of the cost and is faster? And this is what, like 3 months after Fable was first released, and…
Clearly no one here has heard of Occams Razor before :P
Nerd sniping the hackernews/twitter crowd with "large scale transformer-based language model alternatives." People don't want to believe something as unsatisfying as "Scaling up LLMs" can yield something as profound as…
People are desperately trying to cope themselves into thinking that there are alternatives to scaling up transformers to AGI/actual competition to OpenAI or Anthropic. Jev, continual learning, linear attention, local…
The short answer is: they need to make money now to fund continued improvements towards AGI. This is extremely obvious and these "well if they had AGI..." arguments are clearly in bad faith. You have to run a legitimate…
If you've read enough lesswrong, this won't be new to you. The strategy always was "become the most capable model lab so that you have leverage to control AI development."
yes that is literally why they are sounding the alarm - because people think AI is a party trick and they aren't taking it seriously enough.
I think you fundamentally misunderstand what kind of company Anthropic is. I'm simply taking the path of least resistance when understanding what people at Anthropic have to say, and basically every public source points…
Code in most organizations is a means to an end to produce an actual product. The job of a SWE is to not produce the most sublime readable code with cute language bells and whistles that you can show off to your other…
Navier Stokes, and _allegedly_ the Hodge Conjecture and Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer.
Yes these guys are completely delusional. 2 years ago a model could barely solve the AMC, 1 year ago it got IMO gold, and this year models have solved multiple millenium problems. Even 1 year ago ai code was just…
This is just completely false lol. They most certainly can make better models - why cant people here just read this for face value? I think anthropic is legitimately concerned about the safety implications of stronger…
Once we have an existence proof of a particular technology, it doesn't take long for it to become economically viable and proliferate. And for something as useful as this, theres a strong economic incentive to get it to…
People seem to be talking about anything except the actual results with this particular announcement. Its still astonishing that any sort of generalized computer program can solve a problem of this magnitude at all.
lol, the "other work" was also probably 95-99% AI generated. By a similar breed of OpenAI (and some Anthropic) models, as well. I dont know why this monumental achievement is being drowned out by some arbitrary drama.…