Dario: Those who called his GPT-2 fears 'pseudoscience' in 2019 now all apply to AI labs
irinarish · x · 2026-10-28
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recalls seeing GPT-2 in 2019 and concluding that scaling it up a million-fold would beat humans at everything — "the defining economic and scientific moment of the modern age."
- Only 10% of people around him (often the smartest) shared that reaction; the other 90% dismissed it as unimpressive and even "pseudoscience" — and they are now all applying for jobs at AI labs.
- The reposter notes this is expected: scaling model, data and compute the "right" ways keeps improving capabilities.
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