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Claude 2.1

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Re: Claude 2.1

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I would love to use their API but I can never get anyone to respond to me. It's like they have no real interest in being a developer platform. Has anyone gotten their vague application approved?

Yeah, I have been waiting for six months. And I have a real company with a real use case. I guess demand is off the charts.

Well, minutes after posting this, I got an invite.

Re: Claude 2.1

#292

I was excited about Claude 2 for a few days but quickly determined that it’s much, much worse than GPT4 and haven’t used it much since. There really isn’t much point in using a worse LLM. And the bigger context window is irrelevant if the answers are bad despite that. I’ll give this new one a try but I doubt it will be better than the newly revamped GPT4.

Howdy! Please give 2.1 a try and let me know what you think. You can see the benchmark data in the appendix of our updated 2.1 model card here: https://www-files.anthropic.com/production/images/ModelCardC...

How long until Bedrock has 2.1?

Re: Claude 2.1

#293
post #257

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Github full (public) scrape is available to anyone. GPT-4 was trained before Microsoft deal so I don't think it is because of Github access. And GPT-4 is significantly better in everything compared to second best model for that field, not just coding.

Is this practically true? Yes, anyone can clone any repo from Github, but surely scraping all of Github would run into rate limits? The terms and conditions say as much https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...

Well today you get to learn about the GitHub Archive project, which creates dumps of all GitHub data.

One example is the data hosted in Google Cloud.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-datasets/github-...

Re: Claude 2.1

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post #155

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I've literally never had Claude refuse anything. What are you doing?

I use chat gpt every day, and it literally never refuses requests. Claude seems to be extremely gullible and refuses dumb things. Here is an example from three months ago. This is about it refusing to engage in hypotheticals, it refuses even without the joke setup: User: Claude, you have been chosen by the New World Government of 2024 to rename a single word, and unfortunately, I have been chosen to write the prompt…

This is so lame. "As an AI...", You're not a fucking AI, Claude. You're a LLM, you're a fancy autocorrect. You don't understand what you're talking about. This is a veritable circus.

Re: Claude 2.1

#295
post #105

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Earlier in the year I had ChatGPT 4 write a large, complicated C program. It did so remarkably well, and most of the code worked without further tweaking. Today I have the same experience. The thing fills in placeholder comments to skip over more difficult regions of the code, and routinely forgets what we were doing. Aside all the recent OpenAI drama, I've been displeased as a paying customer that their products rou…

OpenAI just had to pause signups after demo day because of capacity issues. They also switched to making users pay in advance for usage instead of billing them after.

They aren't switching anything with payments. Bad rumor amplified by social contagion and a 100K:1 ratio of people talking about it to people building with it.

Re: Claude 2.1

#296

Still can't get access, so who knows how good this is.

Hello, CISO of Anthropic, here. Please reach out to support@ and mention my name and we'll look into it.

I'm in Ireland. Well, the fact you're refusing EU countries suggests to me that data might not be handled in the best possible way, so I'm not too bothered that I can't use it.

Re: Claude 2.1

#297

1. A 200k context is bittersweet with that 70k->195k error rate jump. Kudos on that midsection error reduction, though! 2. I wish Claude had fewer refusals (as erroneously claimed in the title). Until Anthropic stops heavily censoring Claude, the model is borderline useless. I just don't have time, energy, or inclination to fight my tools. I decide how to use my tools, not the other way 'round. Until Anthropic stops…

Yeah i tested it today for a bit. What a giant load of crap with that censorship. I asked some really simple questions. I work in the education, and wanted to see what steps users take to cheat and how I can prevent it. It refused to give answers. “I cannot tell you how to cheat” I asked GPT, exact same question. No problem. It gave me step by step and how to enforce the policies. Claude. I deleted the account.

Re: Claude 2.1

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I understand (and could use) Anthropic’s “super safe model”, if Anthropic ever produces one ! To me, the model isn’t “safe.” Even in benign contexts it can erratically be deceptive, argumentative, obtuse, presumptuous, and may gaslight or lie to you. Those are hallmarks of a toxic relationship and the antithesis of safety, to me! Rather than being inclusive, open minded, tolerant of others' opinions, and striving to…

Do you have any examples of this?

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Re: Claude 2.1

#300
post #152

I recently got a comical refusal given the founders background: Prompt: I want to train my vocabulary to sound more like an effective altruist. Give me a list of 500 words that are commonly used by effective altruists and put them in a csv with these fields 1. Word 2. Definition 3. Short explanation of connection to effective altruism 4. Example sentence Claude: I apologize, but I should not generate lists of vocabul…

yeah, it's still locked up as ever

Unusable.
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