Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has predicted that AI may surpass human capabilities, even robotics', within two to three years.
The former OpenAI employee made the remarks Tuesday in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
"I don't know exactly when it'll come, I don't know if it'll be 2027. I think it's plausible it could be longer than that," he said, according to Wall Street Journal.
"I don't think it will be a whole bunch longer than that when AI systems are better than humans at almost everything. Better than almost all humans at almost everything. And then eventually better than all humans at everything, even robotics," he said.
Amodei co-founded Anthropic in 2021 with his sister Daniela Amodei and five other former OpenAI employees.
Since then, Anthropic's Claude model has emerged as a serious rival to all top notch AI models, including OpenAI's ChatGPT, consistently meeting every standard AI benchmark.
In the interview, Amodei spoke about the likely consequences of such AI as may obviate the need of humans.
"[If] we make good enough AI systems, they'll enable us to make better robots. And so when that happens, we will need to have a conversation... at places like this event, about how do we organise our economy, right? How do humans find meaning?" he said.
Amodei said once the technology has reached that stage, a re-think will be needed on the value of human labour.
"We've recognised that we've reached the point as a technological civilisation where the idea, there's huge abundance and huge economic value, but the idea that the way to distribute that value is for humans to produce economic labour, and this is where they feel their sense of self worth," he said. "Once that idea gets invalidated, we're all going to have to sit down and figure it out."
All this while, Amodei refrained from using the industry's favourite term "Artificial General Intelligence" of AGI, having earlier in another interview dubbed it a "marketing term."
He then said he prefers to call the future AI systems as a "country of geniuses in a data centre."
At present, Anthropic is valued at $60 billion and is looking to raise another $2 billion. Its revenue increased ten-fold in 2024 alone, the CEO admitted.
In an October 2024 essay he wrote in his personal blog, Amodei said such systems would need to be "smarter than a Nobel Prize winner across most relevant fields."
According to Ars Technica, on Monday, Google announced another $1 billion investment in Anthropic, bringing its total commitment to $3 billion.
Amazon too has pumped $8 billion investment in the firm over the past 18 months, with a view to integrate Claude models into future versions of its Alexa speaker.
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