Amodei: AI models will surpass human cognitive capabilities within years
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei delivers an address at the AI Impact Summit in India on the exponential trajectory of AI capabilities.
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“My fundamental view is that AI has been on an exponential for the last 10 years and as part of a sort of Moore's law for intelligence, and that we are now well advanced on that curve, and there are only a small number of years for AI models surpassing the cognitive capabilities Of most humans for most things.”
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