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Oxford's Toby Ord challenges Anthropic's claim that all measurable AI capabilities follow an unbending scaling curve

Ord requested empirical evidence supporting the uniform scaling claim.

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Anthropic's recent post 'When AI Builds Itself' included the following claim that I thought was crucial, yet unsupported. Are all measurable capabilities really improving on the same curve? What is the best evidence for this?

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@tobyordoxford should ask claude about it since it clearly wrote this text

Toby Ord@tobyordoxford

Anthropic's recent post 'When AI Builds Itself' included the following claim that I thought was crucial, yet unsupported. Are all measurable capabilities really improving on the same curve? What is the best evidence for this?

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