Business Spotlight Übungsheft 04/2025: Hörverständnis

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    Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, left, and Daniela Amodei, co-founder and president of Anthropic, during the Bloomberg Technology Summit in San Francisco
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    Brother and sister tech duo

     

    Just because AI can do something, does that mean it should do it? Different answers to this question led Italian-American researcherForscher(in)researchers Dario and Daniela Amodei to leave OpenAI and launch sth.hier: etw. gründenlaunch their own AI start-up, Anthropic, in 2021. The company aims to develop what it calls “constitutional AI.” This means giving the software something like a constitution, a specific set of values that it must follow. Anthropic sees itself as a researchForschungresearch center for AI safety, and its chatbot, Claude 2, is a competitorhier: Konkurrenzproduktcompetitor of ChatGPT.

     

    Dario, 42, and his younger sister, Daniela, found sth.etw. gründenfounded the company with five other researchers — all of whom used to work at OpenAI. The start-up, valued atgeschätzt aufvalued at $60 billionMilliarde(n)billion, is be backed by sb.von jmdm. unterstützt werdenbacked by some financial heavyweights, including Amazon. It is pursue sth.etw. anstrebenpursuing “mechanistic interpretability,” which means opening up AI systems so everyone can see how they work. The Amodeis’ respectivejeweiligrespective academic backgrounds may give them an unusual approachHerangehensweiseapproach to tech: Dario is a biophysicist, while Daniela studied English literature.

     

    Dario says he switched from biology to AI because challenges such as curing cancerKrebscancer or Alzheimer’s ­disease seem “almost beyond human comprehensionVerstand; Verständniscomprehension,” he told the Financial Times. And this is where AI can potentially offer the most benefits to society. “Bit by bit, we’re going to unravel sth.etw. entwirren, enträtselnunravel this complexity that we couldn’t deal with before.”