It's more likely that anthropic feels that if they can crack just programming, then their agents can rapidly do the legwork of surpassing the other labs.
Hmm that makes some sense to me as well, like buying eco upgrades early in an rts game. But that assumes that better programming leads to more-generally-competent AI, which I think is tenuous. The thing that sparked this recent AI summer was not better programming, so why would better programming lead to the next/ongoing big improvements?
Hmm that makes some sense to me as well, like buying eco upgrades early in an rts game. But that assumes that better programming leads to more-generally-competent AI, which I think is tenuous. The thing that sparked this recent AI summer was not better programming, so why would better programming lead to the next/ongoing big improvements?