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Sholto Douglas

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Scaling RL @AnthropicAI, ex @DeepMind - working towards intelligence too cheap to meter

Joined February 2018
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Sholto Douglas
4 months
Very excited to announce that I joined Anthropic at the start of the month!. Everything I'm seeing says that we are on trend for AGI in 2027. If the trend lines continue - then we have a shot at building a radically better world, but the path there is fraught with very real.
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Also notable that both the peptides and the robots are manufactured in China - we’ve forgotten how to build things!.
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“Where did you meet the bootleg peptide dealer?”.“At the underground robot boxing ring”. Visceral future-shock.
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“Where did you meet the bootleg peptide dealer?”.“At the underground robot boxing ring”. Visceral future-shock.
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RT @mikeyk: Over 500M Artifacts have been created since we launched! And today, your Artifacts can now embed Claude's intelligence in them;….
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RT @nearcyan: My job? I'm a rare token hunter. I track down dead languages in Tibetan monasteries, decrypt Tesla's private journals, chase….
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RT @ericjang11: Thrilled to be sharing an important milestone towards bringing humanoid robots to the home: 1X AI has trained Redwood, a VL….
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RT @reinerpope: Why are neural nets and cryptographic ciphers so similar?
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RT @_catwu: Claude Code now integrates more deeply with VS Code and JetBrains IDEs. Claude Code can see your open files, LSP diagnostics,….
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RT @tbpn: 🎁 Weekend Special. We picked some of the best moments on @tbpn this week, put them in a single recap episode to catch you up to s….
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Sholto Douglas
1 month
Extremely fun joining @tbpn yesterday!.
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TBPN
1 month
"Building X would take human months, but if you have fast and good enough AIs, you could do it in several hours." - @_sholtodouglas, research @AnthropicAI. "True creativity is much harder to replicate than analytical reasoning.". "The AI models are actually pretty good at making
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RT @tbpn: Morning. Here are our guest call-ins today:. - @shaunmmaguire (Sequoia).- @jackgwhitaker (Stanford).- @AarushSelvan (Google).- @o….
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RT @dwarkesh_sp: "I look at [DeepSeek's] work, and I'm like, 'Ah, a kindred soul'.". Anthropic researcher @_sholtodouglas and @TrentonBrick….
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RT @dwarkesh_sp: "We finally have proof of an algorithm that can give us expert human reliability and performance, given the right feedback….
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Dwarkesh Patel
2 months
AGI timelines are very bimodal. It's either by 2030 or bust. AI progress over the last decade has been driven by scaling training compute of frontier systems (3.55x a year, 160x over 4 years). This simply cannot continue beyond this decade, whether you look at chips, power,
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Sholto Douglas
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RT @nearcyan: dwarkesh's most recent episode with sholto + trenton is one of the best resources for vibe-checking your takes on LLMs/AI and….
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Sholto Douglas
2 months
One year on - what’s changed? Are we still on trendline? Hang out with us and find out :).
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Dwarkesh Patel
2 months
.@TrentonBricken and @_sholtodouglas are back. Timestamps:.00:00:00 – Claude 4 & how far RL can scale.00:16:27 – Is continual learning a key bottleneck?.00:31:59 – Model self-awareness.00:50:32 – Taste and slop.01:00:51 – How soon to fully autonomous agents?.01:15:17 – Neuralese
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Sholto Douglas
2 months
Extremely fun conversation - we talked a lot about what the next few years might look like, what kinds of long running agency are now possible, and what companies and countries should do in response.
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Jacob Effron
2 months
New episode with @_sholtodouglas (Member of Technical Staff, @AnthropicAI) on how Claude 4 is reshaping coding, research, and the future of work:. - What is newly enabled by Claude 4.- AI's impact today on AI research.- Timeline to automation of all white-collar jobs.- AI 2027
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RT @AnthropicAI: Introducing the next generation: Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. Claude Opus 4 is our most powerful model yet, and the….
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RT @danshipper: Claude 4 Opus can do something no other AI model I've used can do:. It can actually judge whether writing is good. https://….
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Sholto Douglas
3 months
I trust Tamay, Ege and Matthew more than anyone to deliver on the difficulty and rigour necessary to automate white collar work. Very excited to back this :).
@MechanizeWork
Mechanize
3 months
Today we’re announcing Mechanize, a startup focused on developing virtual work environments, benchmarks, and training data that will enable the full automation of the economy. We will achieve this by creating simulated environments and evaluations that capture the full scope of.
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Sholto Douglas
3 months
Swinging by Charleston for some war games
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Dylan Patel
3 months
This pic goes so hard with the military and intelligence community in the crowd at the Citadel Military College.This event is sick so much happening here.I asked for permission to tweet this pic
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