Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark tells IMF the singularity has already begun
connoraxiotes · x · 2026-10-18
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark told the IMF: "I believe that this year, we've gained convincing evidence that it has now begun," defining the singularity as AI speeding up overall scientific and technical progress in ways hard for humans to comprehend.
Commenters push back: progress remains uneven with plenty of bottlenecks; recent math gains look more like a massive speed-up of technical work than genuinely new theories or conceptual breakthroughs.
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