Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic

Post by shmatt » Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 1:35 PM UTC

amanzi wrote: post #41

Mxbonn wrote: post #18

I've been using the claude model over the past months and I have to say I usually prefer it over ChatGPT. Some things that impressed me particular are: * It can often give you working urls of images related to your query. (e.g. give me some images to use with this blog paragraph). * It can list relevant publications corresponding to paragraphs, chatgpt often halucinates new papers but claude consistenly gives highly…

You didn't say which version of GPT you prefer it over. My experience of Claude hasn't been good at all - I get obvious hallucinations all the time. Whereas I get pretty consistent accurate results with GPT-4. I just tried again now and asked it about HTMX and Django since I had just been reading an article about it. Claude invented a package called `htmx.django` and a decorator that could be imported called `@hx_req…

Post by acallaha » Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 1:41 PM UTC

amackera wrote: post #34

quickthrower2 wrote: post #23

Anthropic’s main mission is ethical. Profit is just fuel for the ethical mission (and they would rather have hockey stick AI safety than hockey stick growth given the choice) Amazon, well you know them :-) Flogging their model on Bedrock etc. must be part of the plan for Anthropic but AWS investment must surely create tension.

This sounds nice, and the information on https://www.anthropic.com/company seems to back up your claim, but do you know of anything on Anthropic's corporate governance level that will help ensure this mission is followed (forever)? The profit motive is _very_ resilient. Right now I will take it on face value that it's fuel for the ethical mission, but in the future that might change. It's far (far) more likely that t…

Post by benreesman » Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 1:50 PM UTC

throwbigdata wrote: post #135

benreesman wrote: post #122

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Altman scared the fuck out of me a decade ago. And if I had told anyone five years ago that there would be eyeball scanners building a privately-held biometrics database at a level recently considered extreme for violent criminals? What letter anon would that have sounded like? I would have been like easy there mom, no one is doing that. Are we allowed to talk about Loopt and Greenpoint and OpenAI and Autodesk and Si…

Yes, you are. Now, what are you talking about?

Post by kaibee » Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 1:50 PM UTC

brooksbp wrote: post #111

baq wrote: post #3

If this means alexa isn't a pet rock that can only reliably set timers, good for them.

I'm still waiting for the day Google Assistant can answer "what time does Home Depot open in the morning?" GA: "I found 3 locations, which one?" Me: "The closest one" GA: "I found 3 locations, which one?" ...

Post by marcinzm » Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 1:58 PM UTC

jychang wrote: post #117

benreesman wrote: post #109

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I’m no fan of the people you’re talking about myself. But once we start going down that road we run smack on into companies with like the sovereign wealth fund in Riyadh or (to my embarrassment) Thiel or any number of people who make SBF look like the clueless, entitled, amoral but ultimately strictly small-change knucklehead he is. There are some truly scary people invested in important companies. Do we hold all the…

Yeah, we should totally put our trust in founders who would gladly accept money from immoral sources. We need to understand that society only values who moves first. The early bird gets the worm. If they want to play the game, they need to raise funds from people who truly understand power and money, regardless of the human cost. /s