A profile of Anthropic and its key executives like Chris Olah, and a look at Project Vend, an internal “Claudius” experiment to run the office vending machine
Researchers at the company are trying to understand their A.I. system's mind—examining its neurons …
New Yorker Gideon Lewis-Kraus
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Discussion
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@albrgr
Alexander Berger
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“Now we have a special box of electricity that turns Reddit comments and old toaster manuals into cogent conversations about Shakespeare and molecular biology.” Great profile from Gideon Lewis-Kraus on state of LLMs 10 years after his (amazing) NYT article on Google Translate. [i…
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@edzitron
Ed Zitron
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i cannot believe how rarely people ask the simple question of “how do they pay for this?” Anthropic lost $5.2bn *after* $4.5bn of revenue in 2025! They're feeding equity to opex again and again, this is literally a test of whether venture capital can keep it alive
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@newyorker
@newyorker
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Experiments conducted with the A.I. system Claude are producing fascinating results—and raising questions about the nature of selfhood. Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports from inside the company that designed it, Anthropic. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/ wQBoc2
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@ilex_ulmus
@ilex_ulmus
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Of course @AnthropicAI will take zero responsibility for this. Whatever they want to do to go fast, they have to🤷♀️ But it's so much worse than them flubbing and letting their own research into the training set. Anthropic employees literally go around telling academics and
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@bigmeaninternet
Malcolm Harris
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We should try to convince a faction at Anthropic that destroying capitalism is the only way to protect their project https://www.newyorker.com/...
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@tightspreadz
@tightspreadz
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#Anthropic is targeting ~10 GW of Data Center capacity over the next several years, a scale that implies hundreds of billions in total capex and far exceeds previously disclosed $180B planned server spend through 2029, and $50B Fluidstack partnership disclosed to date. Ambition
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@shakeelhashim
Shakeel
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Oops! [image]
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@krishnanrohit
Rohit
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another thing that folks made fun of when it was said, that things you write into the data will affect later behaviour, that's straightforwardly coming true
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@rachaelrad
Rachael Horwitz
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Kinda cool that the Anthropic comms team and execs did this. Embedding the New Yorker's Gideon Lewis-Kraus and letting the chips fall where they may is almost punk rock at this stage of the “go direct” era. https://www.newyorker.com/...
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@newyorker
@newyorker
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How A.I. works is a mystery even to those developing it. “It's like we understand aviation at the level of the Wright brothers, but we went straight to building a 747 and making it a part of normal life,” one researcher said. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/ wtzNII
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@frankpasquale
Frank Pasquale
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Black box peril: “It wouldn't be fair...to have a machine evaluate an applicant's mortgage eligibility in an opaque way. And, if you employed a robot to keep your house clean of dog hair, you wanted to be certain that it would vacuum the couch, not kill the dog.” — www.newyork…
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What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn't Know, Either
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What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn't Know, Either
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@shannon_liao
Shannon Liao
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Claude was my first time talking to an LLM and seeing an English major's wit reflected back in an uncanny valley sort of way. whether it was any good at mundane tasks consistently was another story
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@jasminewsun
Jasmine Sun
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus only writes about AI like once every 5 years, but when he does, it's a gift his Anthropic profile contains the kind of lyricism generally reserved for describing fine art! [image]