AI or Die | RKG
“You cannot overtake fifteen cars in sunny weather. But you can when it’s raining.” —Formula One driver Ayrton Senna Did you read Dario’s Amodei’s (founder/CEO of Anthropic) post from late last year? This is what he suggested might be available from AI models, as early as 2026. The quote is long, but it’s worth reading in full.1 “I have in mind an AI model—likely similar to today’s LLMs in form, though it might be based on a different architecture, might involve several interacting models, and might be trained differently—with the following properties: In terms of pure intelligence, it is smarter than a Nobel Prize winner across most relevant fields – biology, programming, math, engineering, writing, etc. This means it can prove unsolved mathematical theorems, write extremely good novels, write difficult codebases from scratch, etc. In addition to just being a ‘smart thing you talk to’, it has all the ‘interfaces’ available to a human working virtually, including text, audio, video, mo