2024-10-17: Path to Ascendance
Dario's Vision on the AGI future
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👣 2024-10-17: Path to Ascendance
Anthropic founder, Dario Amodei becomes the first large company CEO to illustrate what a good AGI future looks like, and it’s spellbinding.
TLDR: AGI 2026 earliest, how to get there, and what to do with it. Overall, the first honest public discussion of the internal company view of what may be a good outcome
I appreciate him putting this out there, as he will clearly be labelled crazy by a bunch of people. For the first time, there's a plausible narrative of how we get from here to there. I’ve heard this multiple times in private conversations, in parts, but its great to have an official view from someone actually building it.
What is AGI?
He states “Strong AI” (aka super intelligence/AGI) could arrive as early as 2026.
Given we are at the end of 2024 and an AI research to product cycle …



