Anthropic event pairs AI and fiction: 'models train on verifiable, fiction trains imagination'
geoffwolfe · x · 2026-09-15
After attending an Anthropic-organized conversation between Jack Clark and novelist Robin Sloan, anshuman1 reflected: 'We train models on what's verifiable. Fiction trains people on what's imaginable. The next decade of AI needs both.' The event was recorded.
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