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Amodei: In a couple years, AI will be the world's biggest industry
“I actually think that, you know, as the revenues, as the economic business of AI ramps up and it's ramping up exponentially, you know, if I'm right in a couple years, it'll be the biggest source of revenue in the world, right? It'll be the biggest industry in …”
Amodei: 20-25% chance AI model progress halts within two years
“You know, I think there's maybe I don't know, 20 or 25% chance that sometime in the next two years, the models just start getting, stop getting better for reasons we don't understand, or maybe reasons we do understand, like, you know, data or compute availabil…”
Amodei: Continual learning will be solved by scaling and new methods
“Without being too specific you know, I think, and we already have maybe some, you know, some evidence to suggest that this is another of those problems that is, is not as difficult as it seems. That will fall to scale Plus a slightly different way of thinking …”
Amodei: Enterprise AI use will surpass consumer AI use
“Our view is that if anything, the enterprise use of AI is going to be greater even than the consumer use of AI, right?”
Amodei: AI lag on subjective tasks is a temporary obstacle
“We've seen more progress on say math and code where, where the models are, you know, getting pretty close to like a high professional Level and less on more subjective tasks. But I think that is very much a temporary obstacle.”
Amodei: 2027 Frontier AI Models Will Cost Similar but Be Far More Autonomous
“Two years from now, my guess is that we'll have models that cost of the same order of magnitude that they cost today, except they'll be much more capable of doing work, much more autonomously, much more broadly than they are capable of today.”