Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, foresees AI evolving into a hive-mind with a corporate structure that could also implicate artificial workers in a neo-bureaucratic environment. According to Amodei, the future of AI may involve more of a corporate takeover rather than the more popularized robot uprising.
The CEO expressed his views while featuring on the Econ 102 podcast hosted by Noah Smith and Erik Torenbergon. The interview explored various artificial intelligence-related topics, ranging from military use of AI to improved process efficiency and news about AI replacing humans at work.
Amodei also sheds further light on the company's internal efforts at developing an efficient hierarchy for completing tasks via a string of AI models.
A New Expression for Artificial Intelligence and AI-Linked Systems
The most common forms of AI come as chatbots and image creators. Notably, these innovative technological solutions gulp large funds. OpenAI’s stand-out ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude, for instance, are state-of-the-art AI systems that have cost tens of billions of dollars to build.
However, the most helpful software linked to the technology behind these systems doesn't require their full potential. Claude, for instance, generates Python codes for a Web3 app – without exploring the model's ability to create Latin poems.
Amodei thinks the future of AI would rather create AI swarms that can network to complete specific assignments. The CEO observes that such innovations would involve "big models orchestrating small models," where larger models contain up to hundreds of smaller, swiffer, and more efficient models to execute projects.
The BeeHive
Alluding to the beehive, Anthropic's CEO describes the potential future of AI to include many worker bees supporting their queen. Such a scenario imitates the new world of corporate infrastructure with stellar and never-before-seen abilities.
The Core Claude model would sit at the top, representing Anthropic’s most powerful system. Beneath this system would be various expensive and elemental models versed in wide-area domains like math, programming, and sentiment analysis. Amodei classifies these models as c-suite machines.
Further down the funnel are large swaths of specialty models dedicated to completing predefined tasks. This category of specialty models includes middle-manager specialists. Lastly, behind the middle-manager specialists are entry-level, one-off AI models designated for short-term usage.
Such design, Amodei believes, could potentially benefit various categories of end-users. That’s because everyone can now access the unique capabilities they need via a single and straightforward user interface.
Wrapping Up
Anthropic CEO foresees AI evolving into a hive-mind with corporate structure. The potential future of AI could see larger models sit at the top of a "pyramid" that feeds increasingly smaller models with increasingly specific tasks. Ultimately, if such capabilities materialize, every category of end users will benefit tremendously from a hive-minded AI ecosystem.