AI has started to display ‘compounding exponential’ progress, boss of ChatGPT rival claims

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “A mental model I have of AI is it was roughly ~linear progress from 1960s-2010, then exponential 2010-2020s, then has started to display ‘compounding exponential’ properties in 2021/22 onwards,” he wrote in a Twitter thread. He added: “How I’m trying to be in 2023 is ‘mask off’ about what I think about all this stuff, because I think we have a very tiny sliver of time to do various things to set us all up for more success, and I think information asymmetries have a great record of messing things up.” Anthropic is currently developing a chatbot similar to OpenAI’s hugely popular ChatGPT, which uses generativeAI to offer human-like responses to a vast range of queries. Anthropic’s Claude AI recently achieved a passing grade in university law and economics exam, with one professor describing it as “better than many human” candidates. For other tasks, like code generation or reasoning about code, Claude appears to be worse.” Despite the hype surrounding generative AI and natural language models, OpenAI boss Sam Altman has claimed that the technology is currently “incredibly limited” and gives a “misleading impression of greatness”.