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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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Post by rachofsunshine »

paradite wrote: post #288
accrual wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Huh. I didn't notice Claude had serif font. Now that I look at it, it's actually mixed. UI elements and user messages are sans serif, chat title and assistant messages are serif. What an "odd" combination by traditional design standard practices, but surprisingly natural looking on a monitor.

This is basically why I went with serif for body text in our branding. The particularly "soulless" parts of tech are all sans-serif.

Of course, that's just branding and it doesn't actually mean a damn thing.

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

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Post by jsemrau »

accrual wrote: post #121
highwaylights wrote: post #81

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.

Claude has personality. I think that was one of the more interesting approaches from them that went into my own research as well.

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

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Post by graeme »

abc-1 wrote: post #301

I tried to get it to translate a document and it stopped after a few paragraphs and asked if I wanted it to keep going. This is not appropriate for my use case and it kept doing this even though I explicitly told it not to. The old version did not do this.

I noticed some timeouts today. Could be capacity limits from the announcement

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

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Post by valval »

highwaylights wrote: post #81

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 found the “Computer Use” product name funny. Many other companies would’ve used the opportunity to come up with something like “Human Facing Interface Navigation and Task Automation Capabilities” or “HFINTAC”.

I didn’t know what Computer Use meant. I read the article and though to myself oh, it’s using a computer. Makes sense.

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

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Post by EGreg »

a2128 wrote: post #260
sharpshadow wrote: post #227

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

* Fixed bug where Claude would sign up for chatgpt.com to ask for help with compile errors

But chatgpt still logs into claude… this is like double spending across blockchains

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

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Post by quantadev »

accrual wrote: post #277
quantadev wrote: post #199

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I think the best use case for AI `Computer Use` would be a simple positioning of the mouse and asking for conformation before a click. For most use cases this is all people will want/need. If you don't know how to do something, it is basically teaching you how, in this case, rather than taking full control and doing things so fast you don't have time to stop of going rogue.

Maybe we could have both - models to improve accessibility (e.g. for users who can't move their body well) and models to perform high level tasks without supervision. It could be very empowering for users with disabilities to regain access computers. But it would also be very powerful to be able to ask "use Photoshop to remove the power lines from this photo" and have the model complete the task and drop off a few sa…

Yep. I agree. The "auto-click" thing would be optional. Should be able to turn it on and off. With auto-click off it would just position the mouse and say "click here".

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

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Post by waffletower »

sdl wrote: post #317
gzer0 wrote: 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…

In 2015, when I was asked by friends if I'm worried about Self driving Cars and AI, I answered: "I'll start worrying about AI when my Tesla starts listening to the radio because it's bored." ... that didn't take too long

Maybe that's why my car keeps turning on the music when I didn't ask -- I had always thought Tesla devs were just absolute noobs when it came to state management.

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

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Post by nickserv »

indigodaddy wrote: post #284
gzer0 wrote: 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…

This is, craaaaaazzzzzy. I'm just a layman, but to me, this is the most compelling evidence that things are starting to tilt toward AGI that I've ever seen.

Nah, it's the equivalent of seeing faces in static, or animals in clouds.

Our brains are hardwired to see patterns, even when there are none.

A similar, and related, behavior is seeing intent and intelligence in random phenomenon.

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

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Post by EGreg »

triyambakam wrote: post #320
indigodaddy wrote: post #284

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is, craaaaaazzzzzy. I'm just a layman, but to me, this is the most compelling evidence that things are starting to tilt toward AGI that I've ever seen.

It's an illusion. This is just inference running.

What if the society around you is an illusion too ?

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

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Post by tammer »

This demo is impressive although my initial reaction is a sort of grief that I wasn't born in the timeline where Alan Kay's vision of object-oriented computing was fully realized -- then we wouldn't have to manually reconcile wildly heterogeneous data formats and interfaces in the first place!
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