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Cohere CEO said something similar: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/technology/article-...

Jack Clark from anthropic was asked about some version of this on the BBC recently, and his reply was basically: If you're not at the frontier, you don't know what the frontier looks like, he implied that many models are simply not good enough yet to encounter some of the things the leadings labs are encountering. I've been friends with Jack over 15 years now so I'm inclined to take him at his word, and the rebuttal seems reasonable enough, although... something about it I can't put my finger on feels peculiar to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY8MOhlqC4U

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Mensch and Clark are both saying the things they would be expected to say to improve their own company's chances in a potential new regulatory regime.

Yep, when you can't compete, time to regulate.

I think it will work in Europe, but the United States is in a cold war with China, so I can't imagine the United States would intentionally disable themselves.

The only chance OpenAI and Anthropic have of realizing anything close to their valuations is if Americans are somehow banned from using Chinese models. Our president has made it very clear to everyone that he can be bought, and bought cheaply. A lot of what we are seeing may just be setting up the inevitable.

Basically they want the state to build them a moat

> I've been friends with Jack over 15 years now so I'm inclined to take him at his word

That's all I needed to hear to completely disregard your motivated reasoning.

Edit: I've hit the rate limit, but I'd like to disavow the bad-faith accusations made against me and my account in the replies to this comment.

Second edit: I am not trolling. Why should I take your opinion on LLM code generation seriously when you have been friends with the founder of Anthropic for well over a decade? Obviously you are not in a position to make a rational evaluation of this technology.

Did you make a new account just to shit post about AI?

I believe putting my biases up front in my thoughts is a good way to indicate motives of reasoning and build a positive reputation for honesty, personally I weight the opinions of those who do so higher. Regardless, my motive for posting anything on HN is almost always the same one: to spur an interesting and challenging conversation, it's disappointing when the reply is simply a troll-snipe.

By this measure you will exclude almost all subject matter experts from having an opinion.

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