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Q&A with Bill Gurley on Anthropic employees believing “they can create God, and that by creating God, they are like this Prometheus kind of species”, and more

Bill Gurley: Anthropic Thinks It's Building God @Jason: It is the ultimate level of narcissism and delusion of grandeur to think you can create God. @bgurley: “Anthropic is a mystery to me. I've never, ever seen a company that is both leading their field and the most [video]

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  • @joebotxyz Joe Allen on x
    Reckon we got ourselves a Cyborg Theocracy here.
  • @softminus @softminus on x
    >they're excited about building a species that's superior to humans my brother in Christ that's basically what the whole AI industry is trying to do and they're shockingly explicit and blasé about this shit [image]
  • @jsnover Jeffrey Snover on x
    In my Harvard fellowship I study the views of AI accelerationists, safetyists and skeptics. What I have come to realize is that both the Accelerationists and the Safetyists believe that we are creating an AI God. The difference is that Accelerationists believe that it is the
  • @_nathancalvin Nathan Calvin on x
    (1) I think it's good that more folks are taking the ambitions of AGI companies more seriously instead of just thinking it's hype they don't really believe. (2) Singling out Anthropic is odd given that OpenAI and xAI (and Deepmind and Meta to a slightly lesser degree) are based
  • @architecht0nics @architecht0nics on x
    Why not create both Old Testament and New Testament AI Gods and have them fight it out over heaven and earth?
  • @bradrcarson Brad Carson on x
    As someone working on AI regulation, just want to say for the record that no one I know in this space thinks we are creating a “God.” Powerful tools? Sure. Maybe uncontrollable? Possible. Deity? Nope.
  • @justinebateman Justine Bateman on x
    Been saying this for a while. More than a god, a replacement god, a kind of antichrist. Look at the marketing words these AI company CEOs use.
  • @theblackhorse65 @theblackhorse65 on x
    In actuality, AI is a lot more like the Beast of Revelation 13 than it is like God. And men will worship it. And men will pray to it. [image]
  • @chamath Chamath Palihapitiya on x
    Incredibly interesting take from @bgurley
  • @vijayshekhar Vijay Shekhar Sharma on x
    @theallinpod ... Anthropic is like Bazigar of frontier labs. @aravind — is there a case left for frontier lab for India ? Or only custom retained o/s models.