The Accidental AI Trailblazer
In a nondescript office building tucked away in an industrial park south of San Francisco, a company called Anthropic is cooking up what may be the most powerful artificial intelligence the world has ever seen. The man behind it all is Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s unassuming but brilliant Chief Research Officer.
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In the deepest hours of the night, at 3 am, Geoffrey Hinton was jolted from slumber, drenched in sweat. The grand architect behind artificial neural networks found himself revisiting the same haunting dream night after night. It began in a massive hall, where serried ranks of supercomputers illuminated the darkness, each screen filled with rapidly…
At first glance, Dr. Yue Wu looked like just another disheveled programmer - blue hair sticking up, Skullcandy headphones around his neck, eyes bloodshot from staring at code all night. But behind this unassuming exterior lay one of the most brilliant minds in AI.
Wu was about to run an experiment that could shake the…