Anthropic’s first developer conference kicked off in San Francisco on Thursday, and while the rest of the industry races toward artificial general intelligence, at Anthropic the goal of the year is deploying a “virtual collaborator” in the form of an autonomous AI agent.
“We’re all going to have to contend with the idea that everything you do is eventually going to be done by AI systems,” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in a press briefing. “This will happen.”
As roughly 500 attendees munched breakfast sandwiches with an abnormal amount of arugula, and Anthropic staffers milled about in company-issued baseball caps, Amodei took the stage with his chief product officer, Mike Krieger.
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