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What Dario Amodei thinks about data centers

@dario-amodei · 40 positions · 0 changes of mind

Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic; previously VP of research at OpenAI.

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  1. Our readingThere is a 90% chance of a country of geniuses in a datacentre within ten years, and no honest forecast can go much higher than that.

    Their wordson the basic hypothesis of you know, as you put it, within 10 years we'll get to, you know, you know, what I call kind of country of geniuses in a data center. I'm at like 90% on that. Um and it's hard to go much higher than 90% cuz the world is so unpredictable.

    ↗Dario Amodei — “We are near the end of the exponential”youtube.com 4th of 29 in this recording

    Interesting

  3. Our readingWe will have a country of geniuses in a datacentre within ten years.

    Their wordson the basic hypothesis of you know, as you put it, within 10 years we'll get to, you know, you know, what I call kind of country of geniuses in a data center. I'm at like 90% on that. Um and it's hard to go much higher than 90% cuz the world is so unpredictable.

    ↗Dario Amodei — “We are near the end of the exponential”youtube.com 4th of 29 in this recording

    Interesting

  5. Our readingEven a country of geniuses in a datacentre will not be an infinitely compelling product; it buys three to ten times growth a year, not instant adoption.

    Their wordsbut it's not an infinitely compelling product, and I don't think even AGI or powerful AI or country of geniuses in a data center will be an infinitely compelling product. It will be a compelling product enough maybe to get three or five or 10x a year growth even when you're in the hundreds of billions of dollars, which is extremely hard to do and has never been done in history before, but not infinitely fast.

    ↗Dario Amodei — “We are near the end of the exponential”youtube.com 8th of 29 in this recording

    AGI

    Interesting

  7. Our readingIn this industry, profit means you underestimated demand and loss means you overestimated it, because the datacentres are bought years ahead.

    Their wordsI actually think profitability happens when you underestimated the amount of demand you were going to get and loss happens when you overestimated the amount of demand you were going to get because you're buying the data centers ahead of time.

    ↗Dario Amodei — “We are near the end of the exponential”youtube.com 15th of 29 in this recording

    Interesting