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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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Fascinating. Though I expect people to be concerned about privacy implications of sending screenshots of the desktop, similar to the backlash Microsoft has received about their AI products. Giving the remote service actual control of the mouse and keyboard is a whole another level!

But I am very excited about this in the context of accessibility. Screen readers and screen control software is hard to develop and hard to learn to use. This sort of “computer use” with AI could open up so many possibilities for users with disabilities.

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

#3
I have been a paying ChatGPT customer for a long time (since the very beginning). Last week I've compared ChatGPT to Claude and the results (to my eye) were better, the output better structured and the canvas works better. I'm on the edge of jumping ship.

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

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From the computer use video demo, that's a lot of API calls. Even though Claude 3.5 Sonnet is relatively cheap for its performance, I suspect computer use won't be. It's a very good idea that Anthropic upfront that it isn't perfect. And it's guaranteed that there will be a viral story where Claude will accidentally delete something important with it.

I'm more interested in Claude 3.5 Haiku, particularly if it is indeed better than the current Claude 3.5 Sonnet at some tasks as claimed.

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

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Fascinating. Though I expect people to be concerned about privacy implications of sending screenshots of the desktop, similar to the backlash Microsoft has received about their AI products. Giving the remote service actual control of the mouse and keyboard is a whole another level! But I am very excited about this in the context of accessibility. Screen readers and screen control software is hard to develop and hard…

The key difference is that Microsoft Recall wasn't opt-in.

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

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I still feel like the difference between Sonnet and Opus is a bit unclear. Somewhere on Anthropic's website it says that Opus is the most advanced, but on other parts it says Sonnet is the most advanced and also the fastest. The UI doesn't make the distinction clear either. Then on Perplexity, Perplexity says that Opus is the most advanced, compared to Sonnet.

And finally, in the table in the blogpost, Opus isn't even included? It seems to me like Opus is the best model they have, but they don't want people to default using it, maybe the ROI is lower on Opus or something?

When I manually tested it, I feel like Opus gives slightly better replies compared to Sonnet, but I'm not 100% it's just placebo.

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