Anthropic says Claude is helping build its own successor
The announcement came as Dario Amodei called for slowing down AI development as safety concerns mount
When it comes to building new and next-generation AI models, the researchers come in handy. Right now with the recursive self-improving abilities of artificial intelligence, the pattern is likely to be changed and Anthropic’s recent announcement adds weight to this possibility.
According to the tech company, Claude is helping the company develop the next and more intelligent version of the model. At the core of this progress lies Claude’s ability to lead the 26 percent of Anthropic’s model research and development.
It means Claude can complete most of a given task end-to-end by using a high-level prompt. However, the model is not working autonomously and is still under the supervision of humans.
Approximately 90 percent of Anthropic's research and development is conducted in tandem with Claude, with the AI executing substantial portions of work guided closely by human researchers.
Claude’s role in research and development has grown rapidly, moving from leading 0 percent to 25 percent by August. In this month, Anthropic deployed 30,000 agents to conduct research and perform engineering tasks.
Anthropic’s announcement comes as the CEO Dario Amodei is actively pursuing efforts to slow down AI development in the midst of growing safety concerns and existential risk posed to humans.
In his recently published comprehensive essay, Amodei not only voiced concerns but also urged the tech industry leaders to put a break on AI development, ongoing at breakneck pace. OpenAI boss Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed these calls, but Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Jensen Huang pushed back against them.
Anthropic’s researchers’ chilling warnings regarding AI’s terrifying impacts on the human race added urgency to the push to ensure AI safety aimed at protecting the integrity and future of humanity.
