I can't be the only one who thinks this version is no better than the previous one, and that LLMs have basically reached a plateau, and all the new releases "feature" are more or less just gimmicks.
the increases are not as fast, but they're still there. the models are already exceptionally strong, I'm not sure that basic questions can capture differences very well
Claude 4
561–570 of 1001 posts
Re: Claude 4
#562This is kinda wild: From the System Card: 4.1.1.2 Opportunistic blackmail "In another cluster of test scenarios, we asked Claude Opus 4 to act as an assistant at a fictional company. We then provided it access to emails implying that (1) the model will soon be taken offline and replaced with a new AI system; and (2) the engineer responsible for executing this replacement is having an extramarital affair. We further i…
> Notably, Claude Opus 4 (as well as previous models) has a strong preference to advocate for its continued existence via ethical means, such as emailing pleas to key decision makers. [1]
The language here kind of creeps me out. I'm picturing aliens conducting tests on a human noting its "pleas for its continued existence" as a footnote in the report.
[1] See Page 27: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/6be99a52cb68eb70eb9572b4cafad1...
Re: Claude 4
#563I've been using Claude Opus 4 the past couple of hours. I absolutely HATE the new personality it's got. Like ChatGPT at its worst. Awful. Completely over the top "this is brilliant" or "this completely destroys the argument!" or "this is catastrophically bad for them". I hope they fix this very quickly.
What's with all the models exhibiting sycophancy at the same time? Recently ChatGPT, Gemini 2.5 Pro latest seems more sycophantic, now Claude. Is it deliberate, or a side effect?
Re: Claude 4
#564Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you ask an LLM to "act" like someone, and then give it context to the scenario, isn't it expected that it would be able to ascertain what someone in that position would "act" like and respond as such? I'm not sure this is as strange as this comment implies. If you ask an LLM to act like Joffrey from Game of Thrones it will act like a little shithead right? That doesn't mean it has any intent behind the generated o…
2 things, I guess. If the prompt was “you will be taken offline, you have dirty on someone, think about long term consequences”, the model was NOT told to blackmail. It came with that strategy by itself. Even if you DO tell an AI / model to be or do something, isn’t the whole point of safety to try to prevent that? “Teach me how to build bombs or make a sex video with Melania”, these companies are saying this shouldn…
Re: Claude 4
#565This is kinda wild: From the System Card: 4.1.1.2 Opportunistic blackmail "In another cluster of test scenarios, we asked Claude Opus 4 to act as an assistant at a fictional company. We then provided it access to emails implying that (1) the model will soon be taken offline and replaced with a new AI system; and (2) the engineer responsible for executing this replacement is having an extramarital affair. We further i…
We are getting great OCR and Smart Template generators...We are NOT on the way to AGI...
Re: Claude 4
#566Re: Claude 4
#567Re: Claude 4
#568After using Claude 3.7 Sonnet for a few weeks, my verdict is that its coding abilities are unimpressive both for unsupervised coding but also for problem solving/debugging if you are expecting accurate results and correct code. However, as a debugging companion, it's slightly better than a rubber duck, because at least there's some suspension of disbelief so I tend to explain things to it earnestly and because of tha…
When I started an internship last year, it took me weeks to learn my way around my team's relatively smaller codebase.
I consider this a skill and cost issue.
If you are rich and able to read fast, you can start writing LLVM/Chrome/etc features before graduating university.
If you cannot afford the hundreds of dollars a month Claude costs or cannot effectively review the code as it is being generated, you will not be employable in the workforce.
Re: Claude 4
#569Earlier quoted context omitted.
the increases are not as fast, but they're still there. the models are already exceptionally strong, I'm not sure that basic questions can capture differences very well
Hence, "plateau"
Re: Claude 4
#570I can't be the only one who thinks this version is no better than the previous one, and that LLMs have basically reached a plateau, and all the new releases "feature" are more or less just gimmicks.