Jack Clark serves as both the Co-Founder and Policy Chief at Anthropic.
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Jack Clark serves as both the Co-Founder and Policy Chief at Anthropic.
Apart from being the co-founder of Anthropic, Jack Clark wears many hats. He is the policy director of the AI Index, an esteemed member of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, and co-chairs a working group at the OECD focused on defining AI systems. In addition, he holds a non-resident research fellowship at the Center for Security and Emerging Technologies (CSET). In his leisure time, he authors Import AI, a widely circulated newsletter discussing AI and its policy implications, read by over 25,000 global subscribers. Before this, he directed policy initiatives at OpenAI, a well-known AI research firm.
Jack's roles extend beyond his co-founding of Anthropic; he is also a non-resident research fellow at CSET and holds the co-chair position at the AI Index. Moreover, he is recognized as an expert member of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) and co-chairs a working group with the OECD focused on AI and computation. As part of his hobbies, he pens the Import AI newsletter, which enjoys a readership of over 25,000 individuals across the globe. Previously, Jack was in charge of policy at OpenAI, a prominent player in AI research.Artificial Intelligence In February 2023, a Texas-based company named Anthrop LLC took legal action against Anthropic, claiming that the latter infringed on its registered trademark 'Anthropic A.I.' This company was dubbed the 'Center of A.I. Doomerism' by Kevin Roose from The New York Times, who mentioned that some employees compared their work to that of the modern Robert Oppenheimer.
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Anthropic has often found itself linked to the effective altruism movement, given that many of its founders and team members have been part of or drawn to this community. Notably, Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was among those who invested in Anthropic's Series B funding before its collapse in 2022.
On September 25, 2023, Amazon announced a partnership with Anthropic, starting with a significant investment of $1.25 billion, with the potential of increasing its stake to $4 billion to become a minority owner. As part of this agreement, Anthropic will utilize Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its main cloud provider, making its AI models accessible to AWS users.
Following this, Google invested $500 million in Anthropic and made a commitment to further contribute an additional $1.5 billion in the future.cloud In a surprising turn, OpenAI's board suggested a merger with Anthropic, one of its closest competitors in the AI realm, after the controversial dismissal of former CEO Sam Altman.
Reading a contemporary research paper can be quite the challenge: 'eight widely-used optimizers (AdamW, NadamW, Heavy Ball, Nesterov, LAMB, Adafactor, SAM(w. Adam), DISTRIBUTED SHAMPOO)'—it's a lot to unpack!
Every time I dive into a paper on neural architecture search, I can't help but wonder: if this technology is so revolutionary, why isn’t it already a standard in production?
(Yes, this is a playful nod to an arXiv paper. Expect a detailed commentary in the next edition of Import AI.) A significant portion of the dynamics surrounding the political economy of technology systems derives from the inherent capabilities of these technical systems—the possibilities and limitations they present. Most insights regarding these technical affordances are published on arXiv, multiple times a day.
