Dario Amodei: scaling GPT-2 a millionfold would beat humans at everything
haider1 · x · 2026-10-28
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recalls that GPT-2 was the first real test of the scaling laws hypothesis: "I looked at it and said, My God, you scale this thing up another factor of a million, and it'll be better than humans at everything."
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