ClaimsDario Amodei

“Pure rule-based systems I think are not going to work.”

Dario Amodei, OpenAI researcher, interviewed 21 July 2017 Dario Amodei on OpenAI and how AI will change the world for good and ill (80,000 Hours) archived copy

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Pure rule-based systems will not work for building AGI.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Prediction: Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?

Reasoning

Prediction with no stated horizon.

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Dario Amodei, “Pure rule-based systems will not work for building AGI.” (said 21 July 2017). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_a7b7ee9d4fb1, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_a7b7ee9d4fb1

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  2. Resolved true Prediction 28 February 2025
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  3. Resolved false Prediction 11 November 2024
    “But I would guess that in another 10 months, we’ll probably get pretty close. We’ll be at least 90%.”

    Amodei guessed that within about 10 months AI models would probably get pretty close on typical real-world programming tasks, reaching at least 90%.

  4. Mostly false Prediction 11 November 2024
    “in 10 months we’ve gone from 3% to 50% on this task. And I think in another year we’ll probably be at 90%.”

    Amodei said that, after progress from 3% to 50% on SWE-bench in 10 months, state-of-the-art models would probably be at about 90% in another year, while adding that he did not know and it might be less.

  5. Mostly true Prediction 11 November 2024
    “I would guess a year from now, the models can do this very, very reliably.”

    Amodei guessed that by about November 2025, AI models would be able to perform computer-use tasks very, very reliably.

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