It seems pretty clear that Amazon’s intent is to have state of the art AI backing Alexa. That alone would not be particularly concerning. The problem would be if Amazon has some leverage to force Anthropic to accelerate capabilities research and neglect safety—which is certainly possible, but it seems like Anthropic wants to avoid it by keeping Amazon as a minority investor and maintaining the existing governance structure.
Judging by the example of Microsoft owning a minority stake in OpenAI (and the subsequent rush to release Bing’s Sydney/GPT-4), that’s not exactly comforting.
Ah, I thought you were implying that Anthropic weren’t already racing when you were actually pointing at Amazon (a major company) joining the race. I agree that Anthropic is not a “major” company.
It seems pretty overdetermined to me that Amazon and Apple will join either join the race by acquiring a company or by reconfiguring teams/hiring. I’m a bit confused about whether I want it to happen now, or later. I’d guess later.
I hope this is just cash and not a strategic partnership, because if it is, then it would mean there is now a third major company in the AGI race.
It seems pretty clear that Amazon’s intent is to have state of the art AI backing Alexa. That alone would not be particularly concerning. The problem would be if Amazon has some leverage to force Anthropic to accelerate capabilities research and neglect safety—which is certainly possible, but it seems like Anthropic wants to avoid it by keeping Amazon as a minority investor and maintaining the existing governance structure.
Judging by the example of Microsoft owning a minority stake in OpenAI (and the subsequent rush to release Bing’s Sydney/GPT-4), that’s not exactly comforting.
I interpret it as broadly the latter based on the further statements in the Twitter thread, though I could well be wrong.
Um, conditional on any AI labs being in a race in what way are Anthropic not already racing?
Anthropic is small compared with Google and OpenAI+Microsoft.
I would, however, not downplay their talent density.
Ah, I thought you were implying that Anthropic weren’t already racing when you were actually pointing at Amazon (a major company) joining the race. I agree that Anthropic is not a “major” company.
It seems pretty overdetermined to me that Amazon and Apple will join either join the race by acquiring a company or by reconfiguring teams/hiring. I’m a bit confused about whether I want it to happen now, or later. I’d guess later.