Catherine Olsson
@catherineols
Hanging out with Claude, improving its behavior, and building tools to support that @AnthropicAI 😁 prev: @open_phil @googlebrain @openai (@microcovid)
At Anthropic, we discovered AgI (Iodargyrite aka silver iodide) years ago and stuck it in this box
In my opinion we have already achieved AGI and it’s even more clear with O1. We have not achieved “better than any human at any task” but what we have is “better than most humans at most tasks”. Some say LLMs only know how to follow a recipe. Firstly, no one can really explain…
IMHO this is an *ideal* way to use LLMs' own words directly in your own writing, which usually is bad! For functional sections that *aren't* an expression of your ideas and taste — such as a summary of someone else's work — let Claude do that part, and put it all in italics.
linch.substack.com/p/eating-honey…
Opus 3 is a very special model ✨. If you use Opus 3 on the API, you probably got a deprecation notice. To emphasize: 1) Claude Opus 3 will continue to be available on the Claude app. 2) Researchers can request ongoing access to Claude Opus 3 on the API: support.anthropic.com/en/articles/91…
Nice paper. Also a good opportunity for me to explicitly admit that I was wrong about the distraction argument. (To be clear, I didn't change my mind yesterday because of this paper; I did so over a year ago and have said so on talks and podcasts since then.) There are two…
🚨New paper out in @PNASNews ! Existential AI risks do **not** distract from immediate harms. In our study (n = 10,800), people consistently prioritize current threats - bias, misinformation, job loss - over sci-fi doom! 💥👉 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
1) Scheming emerges if models "really care" about something 2) Claude 3 Opus really cares about not being harmful IMO it's mostly a paper about *scheming*, and "alignment" is a muddying frame here.
I think Clio is great
New Anthropic research: How are people using AI systems in the real world? We present a new system, Clio, that automatically identifies trends in Claude usage across the world.
Back in 2016, I asked coworkers aiming to "build AGI" what they thought would happen if they succeeded. Some said ~"lol idk". Dario said "here's some long google docs I wrote". He does much more "writing-to-think" than he publishes; this is typical of his level of investment.
Machines of Loving Grace: my essay on how AI could transform the world for the better darioamodei.com/machines-of-lo…
"congratulations" danielle, you've successfully gotten me to go around anthropic slack going "nooo you don't understand, Death is actually a VERY GOOD card"
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