Anthropic's Co-Founder on AI Agents, General Intelligence, and Sentience — With Jack Clark

Jack Clark is the co-founder of Anthropic and author of Import AI. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a mega episode on Anthropic and the future of AI. For more on the podcast, please subscribe to my newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ More episodes like this on the Big Technology Podcast feed: Spotify:  https://spoti.fi/32aZGZx Apple:  https://apple.co/3AebxCK Etc. https://pod.link/1522960417/ We cover: 1) What Anthropic and other LLM providers are building towards 2) What AI agents will look like 3) What type of traning is neccesary to get to the next level 4) What AI 'general intelligence' 5) AI memory 6) Anthropic's partnerships with Google and Amazon 7) The broader AI business case 8) The AI chips battle 9) Why Clark and others from OpenAI founded Anthropic 10) Is Anthropic an effective altruism front organization? 11) The risk that AI kills us 12) The risk that AI takes our jobs 13) What regulation would help keep AI safe? 14) Is AI regulation just a front for keeping the small guy down 15) LLMs' ability to persuade 00:00 Introduction to Anthropic and AI 07:40 Training AI Models: Self-Supervised Learning and Reinforcement Learning 15:05 Exploring the Potential of Large Language Models 36:21 Partnerships with Google and Amazon: Leveraging Hardware and Deployment Channels 46:33 The Uncertain Impact of AI Agents on the Internet and Operating Systems 56:00 Exploring the Pragmatic Approach to AI Safety 01:03:03 Balancing Open Source and Responsible AI Development