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What Benedict Evans thinks about Anthropic

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Technology analyst whose weekly email on tech reaches over 150,000 readers. Publishes essays and an annual presentation on where the industry is going.

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  1. Our readingStudies showing a language model behaving badly prove nothing, because the model was asked to produce that behaviour.

    Their wordsyou write murder is good on a piece of paper and you put it in a photocopier and you press go and you say my god the machine says murder's good. Well, no, you told the machine to say that. And that's what these anthropic studies are. They're basically you tell the machine to say a thing and then it says it like well you haven't proved anything.

    ↗Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evansyoutube.com 6th of 16 in this recording

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  3. Our readingThe leading chatbots are undifferentiated: in a blind test most people could not tell one model's output from another's.

    Their wordsLike it seems to me right now you could do like a double blind test of the same prompt given to Grock Claude Gemini um Mistral Deep Seek. Do a double blind test. I bet most people wouldn't be able to tell which is which.

    ↗Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evansyoutube.com 11th of 16 in this recording

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