So did GPT-4.

Like think carefully about this. Did they discover AGI? Or did a bunch of investors make a leveraged bet on them "discovering AGI" so they're doing absolutely anything they can to make it seem like this time it's brand new and different.

If we're to believe Anthropic on these claims, we also have to just take it on faith, with absolutely no evidence, that they've made something so incredibly capable and so incredibly powerful that it cannot possibly be given to mere mortals. Conveniently, that's exactly the story that they are selling to investors.

Like do you see the unreliable narrator dynamic here?

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mgfist an hour ago | parent | next [-]

On the other hand I've gotten to use opus-4.6 and claude code and the quality is off the charts compared to 2023 when coding agents first hit the scene. And what you're saying is essentially "If they haven't created God, I'm not impressed". You don't think there's some middleground between those two?

Also they just hit a $30B run-rate, I don't think they're that needy for new hype cycles.

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simianwords 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't see the problem here. How would you have handled it differently? If you released this model as such without any safety concern, the vulnerabilities might be found by bad actors and used for wrong things.

What do you find surprising here?

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mlsu an hour ago | parent [-]

Vulnerabilities were found, probably a few by bad actors, when GPT4 was released. Every vulnerability found now is probably found with AI assistance at the very least. Should they have never released GPT4? Should we have believed claims that GPT4 was too dangerous for mere mortals to access? I believe openAI was making similar claims about how GPT4 was a step function and going to change white collar work forever when that model was released.

The point is that this whole "the model is too powerful" schtick is a bunch of smoke and mirrors. It serves the valuation.

	▲	simianwords an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Its far more simple to believe that they are releasing it step by step. Release to trusted third parties first, get the easy vulnerabilities fixed, work on the alignment and then release to public. Do you don't believe that the vulnerabilities found by these agents are serious enough to warrant staggered release?