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Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic

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Re: Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic

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Post by amanzi »

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_request`. This is typical of my experience with Claude.

Re: Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic

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Post by wiz21c »

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…

or worse: investors will redefine ethics so to match their profit model.

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Post by alberth »

> ” AWS will become Anthropic’s primary cloud provider”

How much of this becomes creative accounting?

AWS gets to reduce its profits by making this investment, which means they pay less taxes.

Then with AWS’ own money, they will get to recognize this as new AWS cloud revenue continuing their sales growth.

While all during which they also get an equate stake.

This seems like a creative way for AWS (and Microsoft with OpenAI) to artificially boost cloud revenues.

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Post by djjzjshdhhd »

philshem wrote: post #22
IanCal wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Alexa and google home have been excellent for discovering new music. You ask them for a song you know and they play either a very weird cover version or something entirely different.

I am not a Google Home or Alexa user, and I honestly can't tell if this is meant to be sarcastic.

It's a joke. Google Assistant is notoriously awful and at home we often kid that if we ask it to play 90's rock on Spotify it will play some animal documentary on Netflix. It's not too far from the truth.

Re: Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic

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Post by djjzjshdhhd »

digitcatphd wrote: post #6
jatins wrote: post #5

At this point Apple is the only BigTech without any major investment in LLMs. Which isn't too surprising, they have historically never jumped on the shiny new thing until the dust clears off.

I do suspect they are making internal investments. The latest iOS update has substantially improved speech to text capabilities.

Exactly OP's point. STT/TTS is such an old technology at this point.

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Post by gwd »

IanCal wrote: post #19
baq wrote: post #3

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

Alexa and google home have been excellent for discovering new music. You ask them for a song you know and they play either a very weird cover version or something entirely different.

Siri has been helpful for increasing my 3-year-old's vocabulary: he'll ask it to play a song he knows, and Siri will pick out an explicit R&B piece full of all sorts of words he's never been exposed to.

(Seriously -- there's a song with the title "The ABC Song", which as one might expect, is about the ABCs. But it's impossible to get it to play that via voice control; it only wants to play "abcdefu", which is not the same song at all, and has a very clear F-bomb 5 seconds in.)

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Post by djjzjshdhhd »

yieldcrv wrote: post #40
jatins wrote: post #5

At this point Apple is the only BigTech without any major investment in LLMs. Which isn't too surprising, they have historically never jumped on the shiny new thing until the dust clears off.

erm misconception. Apple hasn’t released a dedicated chatbot but they use models heavily and in very targeted ways all the iPhones have had a transformer co-processor for several generations, the neutral engine is primed for use with this current crop with just a little more dedicated ram to it this is arguably better than the pick me chatbot thing but Apple is also primed to disrupt all of that, they include a fine…

/s ?

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Post by jaggederest »

philshem wrote: post #22
IanCal wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Alexa and google home have been excellent for discovering new music. You ask them for a song you know and they play either a very weird cover version or something entirely different.

I am not a Google Home or Alexa user, and I honestly can't tell if this is meant to be sarcastic.

only somewhat sarcastic. At least once a week Alexa will play an off the wall unrelated song or a crazy cover of the desired song.
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