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Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku

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Re: Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku

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It worked for Nintendo. The 3ds and “new 3ds” were both big sellers.

3ds doesn't have a version number to bump. Claude 3.5 does.

The 3 was the version number ;)

Ds and ds lite were version 1

Dsi was 2 (as there was dsi software that didn’t run on ds or ds lite)

And the 3ds was version 3.

Re: Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku

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And today I realized that despite it being an extremely common activity, we don’t really have a word for “using the computer” which is distinct from “computing”. It’s funny because AI models are always “using a computer” but now they can “use your computer.”

Computering

Re: Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku

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I have to agree. I've been chatting with Claude for the first time in a couple days and while it's very on-par with ChatGPT 4o in terms of capability, it has this difficult-to-quantify feeling of being warmer and friendlier to interact with. I think the human name, serif font, system prompt, and tendency to create visuals contributes to this feeling.

The real problem with Claude for me currently is that it doesn't have full LaTeX support. I use AI's pretty much exclusively to assist with my school work (there's only so many hours in a day and one professor doesn't do his own homeworks before he assigns them) so LaTeX is essential. With that known, my experience is that ChatGPT is much friendlier. The Claude interface is clunkier and generally less helpful to me.…

you can enable latex support in the settings of Claude

Re: Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku

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Next release patch notes: * Fixed bug where Claude got bored during compile times and started editing Wikipedia articles to claim that birds aren't real * Blocked news.ycombinator.com in the Docker image's hosts file to avoid spurious flamewar posts (Note: The site is still recovering from the last insident) * Addressed issue of Claude procrastinating on debugging by creating elaborate ASCII art in Vim * Patched tend…

You forgot the most important one. * Added guards to prevent every other sentence being "I use neovim"

Thank god it'll say "I use Claude btw", not leading to unnecessary text wars (and thereby loss of your valuable token credits).

Re: Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku

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Top comment at the time I looked: "There seems to be a ton of confusion about the purpose of these ads. These are recruitment ads, not product ads, hence why "no drama" is the driving message. I'm sure these were all taken at or around a tech conference."

That comment is wrong, it appears this campaign is much wider. SF: https://x.com/_claudiazhao/status/1815463380767121733/photo/... LA: https://x.com/michaelmiraflor/status/1840797631095964110/pho... Boston: https://x.com/moloneymike/status/1842203082374946851/photo/1 London: https://x.com/maria_axente/status/1805607576156979673/photo/...

Its specifically the "No drama" campaign that people were complaining about.

Re: Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku

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post #182

One of the funnier things during training with the new API (which can control your computer) was this: "Even while recording these demos, we encountered some amusing moments. In one, Claude accidentally stopped a long-running screen recording, causing all footage to be lost. Later, Claude took a break from our coding demo and began to peruse photos of Yellowstone National Park." [0] https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1…

Next release patch notes: * Fixed bug where Claude got bored during compile times and started editing Wikipedia articles to claim that birds aren't real * Blocked news.ycombinator.com in the Docker image's hosts file to avoid spurious flamewar posts (Note: The site is still recovering from the last insident) * Addressed issue of Claude procrastinating on debugging by creating elaborate ASCII art in Vim * Patched tend…

* Claude now identifies itself in chats to avoid endless chat with itself

Re: Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku

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Completely irrelevant, and it might just be me, but I really like Anthropic's understated branding. OpenAI's branding isn't exactly screaming in your face either, but for something that's generated as much public fear/scaremongering/outrage as LLMs have over the last couple of years, Anthropic's presentation has a much "cosier" veneer to my eyes. This isn't the Skynet Terminator wipe-us-all-out AI, it's the adorable…

I have to agree. I've been chatting with Claude for the first time in a couple days and while it's very on-par with ChatGPT 4o in terms of capability, it has this difficult-to-quantify feeling of being warmer and friendlier to interact with. I think the human name, serif font, system prompt, and tendency to create visuals contributes to this feeling.

Probably, people find Claude's color palette warmer and inviting as well. I believe I do. But Claude definitely has few authentication hoops than chatgpt.com. Gemini has by far the least frequent authentication interruptions than the 3 models.

Re: Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku

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Both new Sonnet and gpt-4o still fail at a simple: "How many w's are in strawberry?" gpt-4o: There are 2 "w's" in "strawberry." Claude 3.5 Sonnet (new): Let me count the w's in "strawberry": 0 w's. (same question with 'r' succeeds) What is artificial about current gen of "artificial intelligence" is the way training (predict next token) and benchmarking (overfitting) is done. Perhaps a fresh approach is needed to ach…

They are trained on tokens not characters.

Re: Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku

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Both new Sonnet and gpt-4o still fail at a simple: "How many w's are in strawberry?" gpt-4o: There are 2 "w's" in "strawberry." Claude 3.5 Sonnet (new): Let me count the w's in "strawberry": 0 w's. (same question with 'r' succeeds) What is artificial about current gen of "artificial intelligence" is the way training (predict next token) and benchmarking (overfitting) is done. Perhaps a fresh approach is needed to ach…

There's always that one tokenization error comment
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