AI is dramatically accelerating AI research

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This post discusses a public METR report on AI R&D acceleration at Anthropic. Researchers work on improving algorithms and architectures; Anthropic has sometimes referred to these innovations as “compute multipliers.”5 Overall AI capabilities (“effective compute”) is the product of compute multipliers and training compute. Before there was much acceleration from AI, labor roughly grew at some roughly fixed exponential rate from hiring more humans.

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