ClaimsDaniela Amodei

“ML and AI is still a fairly new field.”

Daniela Amodei, Anthropic president 4 March 2022 Daniela and Dario Amodei on Anthropic (Future of Life Institute)

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Machine learning and AI is still a fairly new field.

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The claim is too vague, since 'fairly new' is undefined.

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Daniela Amodei, “Machine learning and AI is still a fairly new field.” (said 4 March 2022). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_2dac70ad0d9e, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_2dac70ad0d9e

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