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Making Claude a Chemist

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Re: Making Claude a Chemist

#61

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I just wait until a Opensource model inhaled all the chemistry books and papers. Lol. They are following closely and the best offer 80-90% of the performance and come with a very small fraction of the costs.

Why wouldn't the US gov. outlaw the open source models?

How would that affect the world?

Re: Making Claude a Chemist

#62
post #21

If they succeed here, won't they have to gate access to this feature, too? For the same reasons as, "if I so much as mention mitochondria, it downgrades me to Opus." Step 1. Make it so Claude can do anything — the whole point of AGI Step 2. Wait, if the user can do Anything, that would be Very Bad! Step 3. Err on the safe side with blanket bans of entire fields The latter actually seems to me a sensible reaction to e…

It would make more sense to have specialized versions of Claude instead of having a universal one ie BioClaude, ProgrammerClaude, NuclearClaude, CyberSecurityClaude, et al

This would be both safer and less annoying to use.

Re: Making Claude a Chemist

#63
post #21

If they succeed here, won't they have to gate access to this feature, too? For the same reasons as, "if I so much as mention mitochondria, it downgrades me to Opus." Step 1. Make it so Claude can do anything — the whole point of AGI Step 2. Wait, if the user can do Anything, that would be Very Bad! Step 3. Err on the safe side with blanket bans of entire fields The latter actually seems to me a sensible reaction to e…

"Making Claude a chemist" is a punch in the face of all us here after we got a taste of Claude fable blocking almost any STEM-related topic. So i don't know what Story Anthropic wants to tell us with this blog. Probably more like "Hey, look at what awesome tricks Claude can do which of course you will never experience because you're not american, not friends with the CEO, not rich or simply because fuck you"

Re: Making Claude a Chemist

#64

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I just wait until a Opensource model inhaled all the chemistry books and papers. Lol. They are following closely and the best offer 80-90% of the performance and come with a very small fraction of the costs.

Why wouldn't the US gov. outlaw the open source models?

And build the wall, all around.

Re: Making Claude a Chemist

#65
post #21

If they succeed here, won't they have to gate access to this feature, too? For the same reasons as, "if I so much as mention mitochondria, it downgrades me to Opus." Step 1. Make it so Claude can do anything — the whole point of AGI Step 2. Wait, if the user can do Anything, that would be Very Bad! Step 3. Err on the safe side with blanket bans of entire fields The latter actually seems to me a sensible reaction to e…

It's a good marketing strategy though, since nobody can disprove that Claude is the best chemist :)

Re: Making Claude a Chemist

#66
post #21

If they succeed here, won't they have to gate access to this feature, too? For the same reasons as, "if I so much as mention mitochondria, it downgrades me to Opus." Step 1. Make it so Claude can do anything — the whole point of AGI Step 2. Wait, if the user can do Anything, that would be Very Bad! Step 3. Err on the safe side with blanket bans of entire fields The latter actually seems to me a sensible reaction to e…

I just wait until a Opensource model inhaled all the chemistry books and papers. Lol. They are following closely and the best offer 80-90% of the performance and come with a very small fraction of the costs.

There are no open source LLMs, only LLMs you can download.

Re: Making Claude a Chemist

#67
post #29

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At least vibe coding can only explode in your face metaphorically.

Until vibe code is used for weapons system, or explosive manufacturers, or.. or... The world today is coding.

Already is. Missile that hit the Iranian girl's school was vibe targeted.

Re: Making Claude a Chemist

#69
post #5

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> We measured three Claude models (Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6) You can use those and they probably won't intentionally sabotage you.

Yeah. Probably.

The thing about trust is.. it takes time to build and seconds to destroy.

Re: Making Claude a Chemist

#70

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I just wait until a Opensource model inhaled all the chemistry books and papers. Lol. They are following closely and the best offer 80-90% of the performance and come with a very small fraction of the costs.

Why wouldn't the US gov. outlaw the open source models?

Prior restraint?
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