Market debut of AI company behind Claude chatbot will be one of largest in US history, a test of its financial viability
Anthropic has publicly filed for a stock market listing, one of the largest debuts in history. The company’s float on the US market is likely to be a high-water mark in the multitrillion-dollar AI boom and a test of its financial viability.
Analysts and investors have valued the San Francisco-based company, founded in 2021, at more than $1.5tn. The company, which will will list under the symbol ANT, confidentially filed with US financial regulators for an initial public offering in June.
I really don’t get the “AI is the future” thing. Future of what? Any of the things it’s capable of doing I would rather do myself, and the things it’s not capable of doing are the things I consider most valuable.
My future, at the very least. It has allowed me to do things that were simply outside my ability to feasibly do. I certainly can’t write programs or make art. My local AI restored some game DLC into working order, doing the archaeology and rewiring.
You are welcome to be oldschool. Your cohort are simply taking an path that will look increasingly strange to future generations.
Video Killed the Radio Star
No one is born knowing how to do anything. No technology has ever made others look strange except for early adopters. No one chooses to ride a skateboard or bike over a car and gets looked at as someone who’s old school.
You have AI psychosis. Please seek treatment. You are capable of things, actually.
No thank you. The glasses I use, my medicine, the books that store the thoughts of others, my car, and my fridge augment my abilities. Far as mother nature is concerned, we are freakish, because we aren’t as tightly bound to her rules and timescale.
AI is no different. My “psychosis”, is just part of an emerging society that is unrecognizable to you.
Ah video games, yes I’m told those are popular. Admittedly I don’t interact with many of the things that AI is good at, other than programming. And it’s competency as a programmer is why I’m getting out of the field. Probably go be an electrician again.
It can make music , create art, and write but why would I want it? It can program but what software do I need that is so complex I need an AI to make it? 3 line sh scripts for text processing are not hard.
It can do theoretical math, but I’m not a theoretical mathematician.
It can answer emails but… Why? That’s creepy no? And once again it’s trivial to respond to correspondence.
All of the things it could replace are easier/cheaper to do by hand, and everything else is an extremely specific business case that I don’t have.
I hazard a guess that I am not alone in this case.