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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 #92

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3ds doesn't have a version number to bump. Claude 3.5 does.

The 3 was the version number ;) Ds and ds lite were version 1 Dsi was 2 (as there was dsi software that didn’t run on ds or ds lite) And the 3ds was version 3.

there /was/ a 2DS, though, and it came after the 3DS.

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

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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.

Anthropic's rate limit are very low sadly, even for paid customers. You can use the API of course but it's not as convenient and may be more expensive.

I hit their rate limit one night with about 25 chat interactions in less than 60 minutes. This was during off hours too when competition for resources should have been low.

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…

> I expect people to be concerned about privacy implications of sending screenshots of the desktop

That's why in https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt we've built in several state-of-the-art PII/PHI scrubbers.

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

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post #10

How does the computer use work -- Is this a desktop app they are providing that can do actions on your computer? Didn't see any such mention in the post

See https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt for an open source alternative that includes a desktop app.

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

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Claude is amazing. The project documents functionality makes it a clear leader ahead of ChatGPT and I have found it to be the clear leader in coding assistance over the past few months. Web automation is really exciting.

I look forward to the brave new future where I can code a webapp without ever touching the code, just testing, giving feedback, and explaining discovered bugs to it and it can push code and tweak infrastructure to accomplish complex software engineering tasks all on its own.

Its going to be really wild when Claude (or other AI) can make a list of possible bugs and UX changes and just ask the user for approval to greenlight the change.

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

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Not specific to this update, but I wanted to chime in with just how useful Claude has been, and relatively better than ChatGPT and GitHub copilot for daily use. I've been pro for maybe 6 months. I'm not a power user leveraging their API or anything. Just the chat interface, though with ever more use of Projects, lately. I use it every day, whether for mundane answers or curiosities, to "write me this code", to general consultation on a topic. It has replaced search in a superior way and I feel hugely productive with it.

I do still occasionally pop over to ChatGPT to test their their waters (or if Claude is just not getting it), but I've not felt any need to switch back or have both. Well done, Anthropic!

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

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post #48

I suspect they are gonna need some local offload capabilities for Computer Use, the repeated screen reading can definitely be done locally on modern machines, otherwise the cost maybe impractical.

See https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt for an open source alternative that runs segmentation locally.

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

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Anthropic blog post outlining the research process: https://www.anthropic.com/news/developing-computer-use Computer use API documentation: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/compute... Computer Use Demo: https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-quickstarts/tree/mai...

This needs to be brought up. Was looking for the demo and ended up on the contact form

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

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And today I realized that despite it being an extremely common activity, we don’t really have a word for “using the computer” which is distinct from “computing”. It’s funny because AI models are always “using a computer” but now they can “use your computer.”

In English at least. In other languages there are.

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

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post #197

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Next release patch notes: * Fixed bug where Claude got bored during compile times and started editing Wikipedia articles to claim that birds aren't real * Blocked news.ycombinator.com in the Docker image's hosts file to avoid spurious flamewar posts (Note: The site is still recovering from the last insident) * Addressed issue of Claude procrastinating on debugging by creating elaborate ASCII art in Vim * Patched tend…

* 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
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