Dario Amodei: seeing GPT-2, he knew scaling a million-fold would beat humans at everything
haider1 · x · 2026-10-28
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recalled 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." The poster calls this the defining economic and scientific moment of the modern age, one we don't yet recognize — a reminder of how Amodei's early conviction in scaling shaped today's AI race.
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