This Week in AI: Anthropic's CEO talks scaling up AI and Google predicts floods | TechCrunch
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Dario Amodei believes scaling up models is crucial for advanced AI, stating, "Probably, the scaling is going to continue, and there's some magic to it that we haven't really explained." He implies that increasing compute and model size will lead to breakthroughs, despite theoretical uncertainties.
Amodei is optimistic about overcoming data shortages in AI development. He argues that synthetic data generation will help developers, claiming they will find ways to "get around" data limitations, despite existing debates over synthetic data validity.
Despite escalating costs in AI compute, with projections of substantial spending by 2027, Amodei acknowledges the unpredictability of AI models, asserting, "It's just very hard to control the behavior of a model in all circumstances at once," highlighting the 'whack-a-mole' challenge of managing model behavior.
Amodei predicts that by 2026 or 2027, Anthropic or a competitor will develop a superintelligent AI, a model anticipated to exceed human-level capabilities, underscoring the competitive race in AI development.
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