Anthropic Co-founder Jack Clark’s recent predictions: AI will help make a Nobel Prize-winning discovery within the next year, bipedal robots doing useful work in 2 years, RSI by end of 2028
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Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark predicts AI will contribute to a Nobel Prize-winning discovery within a year, bipedal robots will perform useful work in two years, and recursive self-improvement (RSI) will occur by end of 2028, based on a lecture at Oxford University.
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