I still don’t understand what Anthropic is trying to achieve with all of these stunts showing that their LLMs go off the rails so easily. Is it for gullible investors? Why would a consumer want to give them money for something so unreliable?
I think part of it is that they want to gaslight people into believing they have actually achieved AI (as in, intelligence that is equivalent to and operates like that of a human’s) and that these are signs of emergent intelligence, not their product flopping harder than a sack of mayonnaise on asphalt.
I still don’t understand what Anthropic is trying to achieve with all of these stunts showing that their LLMs go off the rails so easily. Is it for gullible investors? Why would a consumer want to give them money for something so unreliable?
I think part of it is that they want to gaslight people into believing they have actually achieved AI (as in, intelligence that is equivalent to and operates like that of a human’s) and that these are signs of emergent intelligence, not their product flopping harder than a sack of mayonnaise on asphalt.
People who don’t understand and read these articles and think Skynet. People who know their buzz words think AGI
Fortune isn’t exactly renowned for its Technology journalism