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Meet “Claude”: Anthropic’s rival to ChatGPT

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Re: Meet “Claude”: Anthropic’s rival to ChatGPT

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They say Claude is "more verbose", and claim this is a positive. I disagree. My biggest criticism of ChatGPT is that its answers are extraordinarily long and waffly. It sometimes reminds me of a scam artist trying to bamboozle me with words.

I would much prefer short, concise, precise answers.

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#12

They say Claude is "more verbose", and claim this is a positive. I disagree. My biggest criticism of ChatGPT is that its answers are extraordinarily long and waffly. It sometimes reminds me of a scam artist trying to bamboozle me with words. I would much prefer short, concise, precise answers.

Totally agree, I often think of its writing style as a buzfeed coloumist on cocaine.

Re: Meet “Claude”: Anthropic’s rival to ChatGPT

#13

They say Claude is "more verbose", and claim this is a positive. I disagree. My biggest criticism of ChatGPT is that its answers are extraordinarily long and waffly. It sometimes reminds me of a scam artist trying to bamboozle me with words. I would much prefer short, concise, precise answers.

This is why ChatGPT is impressively good at writing marketing copy.

Re: Meet “Claude”: Anthropic’s rival to ChatGPT

#15

They say Claude is "more verbose", and claim this is a positive. I disagree. My biggest criticism of ChatGPT is that its answers are extraordinarily long and waffly. It sometimes reminds me of a scam artist trying to bamboozle me with words. I would much prefer short, concise, precise answers.

You are able to prompt ChatGPT to be concise, you know? They set a default and showed it to the world. It is up to you to tune it according to your preference.

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post #10

Is the future going to be increasingly advanced AIs competing publicly for the currency of human attention?

That is a decent possibility. I can already see a combination of midjourney and chat gpt producing decent narratives. I can imagine personalised tv shows and narratives really taking over. If you lookup manga summaries on youtube, its very close to what can already be produced using these tools.

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#17

Semi offtopic, but for some time I have been dreaming of training chatbot to communicate in cuneiform or hieroglyphs to bring some old languages back alive. Could it be possible, using old tablets as training data?

Intriguing question. Would it need large sets of hieroglyphic training data and is there enough of it? Or would a translation module be enough?

a follow up question: could a chatbot teach you said language?

Re: Meet “Claude”: Anthropic’s rival to ChatGPT

#18

They say Claude is "more verbose", and claim this is a positive. I disagree. My biggest criticism of ChatGPT is that its answers are extraordinarily long and waffly. It sometimes reminds me of a scam artist trying to bamboozle me with words. I would much prefer short, concise, precise answers.

I have access to Claude. I think the length of the responses vary more depending on the context than at least the previous version of ChatGPT. It would give sometimes longer, but also sometimes shorter answers and it would feel better overall. But ChatGPT recently had an update and it also improved, so now I'm not sure anymore who is better.

Re: Meet “Claude”: Anthropic’s rival to ChatGPT

#19

They say Claude is "more verbose", and claim this is a positive. I disagree. My biggest criticism of ChatGPT is that its answers are extraordinarily long and waffly. It sometimes reminds me of a scam artist trying to bamboozle me with words. I would much prefer short, concise, precise answers.

This is why ChatGPT is impressively good at writing marketing copy.

And status updates.

Re: Meet “Claude”: Anthropic’s rival to ChatGPT

#20

Semi offtopic, but for some time I have been dreaming of training chatbot to communicate in cuneiform or hieroglyphs to bring some old languages back alive. Could it be possible, using old tablets as training data?

No, you need billions of words to train a large language model.
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