AI is developing at a very fast pace, and that’s a fact. However, something claimed by the co-founder and head policy chief of Anthropic has grabbed a lot of attention. According to Jack Clark, AI could begin contributing to discoveries worthy of major scientific prizes in the coming months, potentially leading to a Nobel Prize nomination.
In his speech at Oxford University this week, Clark said he believes an AI system working alongside humans could help make a Nobel Prize-winning scientific discovery within the next 12 months. As per the Guardian, Clark said that the current pace of AI development is creating a ‘vertiginous sense of progress’ with breakthroughs arriving far faster than many expected.
Furthermore, the report also stated that the bipedal robots will begin helping tradespeople in the next two years, while businesses run exclusively by AI would be earning millions of dollars worth of profit within 18 months from now. That’s not it, the Anthropic co-founder said that by the end of 2028, AI systems will be designing their own successors.
Coming to Anthropic, the official website of the company says it focuses on developing reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Back to Clark, he also issued warnings related to the models. He said that people still underestimate the progress of AI systems. Clark said that humanity needs to prepare for a technology that could ‘soon be more capable than all of them collectively.’
Clark clearly said that there is a non-zero chance that AI may one day turn against mankind. He stated it would have been better if man could reduce the speed of development in order to understand the impact. Nonetheless, he himself said that this seems likely impossible because nations and businesses are at war against each other on the AI front.
