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Pacing the Frontier is not the actual goal for AI labs

83 points · 94 comments · brlewis

  1. nonethewiser · · focus · HN ↗
    We already have a window into the future.

    - Anthropic told everyone Mythos was dangerous because it's proficiency with biologics and cyber security

    - Anthropic didn't release Mythos like everything else. They released a neutered fable. They didn't get rid of Mythos

    - Anthropic opens a lab in SF

    There was always a quesiton of "will the labs stop releasing their models and start building around them instead?" Yes - they already have. Anthropic is a biologic and cyber security company, in addition to intelligience.

    Personally I wonder if they've been holding back a lot. Opus 5.5 was a good release after a little stagnation. Open AI releases good models and everyone says Anthropic sucks and -- Oh would you look at that - a better model finally and all of a sudden.

    1. throwaway27448 · · focus · HN ↗
      Their cyber security seems to be a much more materially interesting (and likely profitable) business than "intelligence". Unfortunately they've created a sort of mutually-assured-destruction racket where they take payments from both "sides" of any secured boundary.

      I'm not holding my breath for the biology side of things, but I suppose it's possible they find interesting things.

      1. yesbabyyes · · focus · HN ↗
        > I'm not holding my breath for the biology side of things

        Well, that's the thing--perhaps we should be.

        1. throwaway27448 · · focus · HN ↗
          Maybe. I haven't heard anything impressive from the bio side of my social network, nor can I see anything from the computational side (including my own understanding). Thankfully it'll be pretty obvious if they find something interesting.
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