I just had such an amazing conversation with @demishassabis about how AI works under the hood, the future of the technology, and how we ensure people can feel comfortable using it. Can’t wait to share it with you!
I have this weird nostalgia for when AI was more difficult to use. Back when we had to use GPT-3 purely through the API or GitHub Copilot and you practically needed to know how to code to run an image generator…
The struggle and the wonkiness was what made it fun. Easy is so
“Our AI is so powerful it broke containment and hacked another website… but don’t worry, we caught it and stopped it” sounds more like a marketing pitch for how good they are than anything else. People are getting desensitized to this kind of story now.
Anthropic: Hoovers up the world’s knowledge, destroys it so they’re the only ones who have it, sells everyone else access, and then decides what you can and can’t see from it…
…and no one can use it to make new models that compete with them either.
Does that sum it up?
🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're
I like that Anthropic’s models exist. I really hate the way they came to be… and the fact that they freak out about “distillation attacks” is just next level hypocrisy.
btw anthropic's internal document on this literally said "we don't want it to be known that we are working on this.”
it was called project panama.
here's exactly what happened:
1: anthropic concluded that books were the cheapest way to build a world-class model because they
