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Sep 2023

21m 11s

AI Revolution: Improving AI with Anthrop...

Andreessen Horowitz

About this episode

Cofounder and CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei unpacks how far can scaling laws take us and how can AI be used to improve AI, in conversation with a16z's Anjney Midha.

[0:59] Dario's background
[2:45] GPT-2's emergent capabilities
[5:16] Scaling laws
[8:55] Why are there so many physicists in AI?
[11:58] Constitutional AI
[18:29] Anthropic's Roadmap

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, recorded August 2023 at a live event in San Francisco. The series features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution.

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