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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 by mfld »

gzer0 wrote: post #182

One of the funnier things during training with the new API (which can control your computer) was this: "Even while recording these demos, we encountered some amusing moments. In one, Claude accidentally stopped a long-running screen recording, causing all footage to be lost. Later, Claude took a break from our coding demo and began to peruse photos of Yellowstone National Park." [0] https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1…

It enjoyed nature photos of the Yellowstone national park? I rather expected it would prefer images of big data centers.

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

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Post by szundi »

simonw wrote: post #499

Claude 3.5 Opus is no longer mentioned at all on https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/models Internet Archive confirms that on the 8th of October that page listed 3.5 Opus as coming "Later this year" https://web.archive.org/web/20241008222204/https://docs.anth... The fact that it's no longer listed suggests that its release has at least been delayed for an unpredictable amount of time, or maybe even cancel…

Or maybe they released it

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

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Post by szundi »

mfld wrote: post #641
gzer0 wrote: post #182

One of the funnier things during training with the new API (which can control your computer) was this: "Even while recording these demos, we encountered some amusing moments. In one, Claude accidentally stopped a long-running screen recording, causing all footage to be lost. Later, Claude took a break from our coding demo and began to peruse photos of Yellowstone National Park." [0] https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1…

It enjoyed nature photos of the Yellowstone national park? I rather expected it would prefer images of big data centers.

That’s nsfw

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

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Post by TeMPOraL »

falcor84 wrote: post #496
mewpmewp2 wrote: post #464

Earlier quoted context omitted.

True, 2FA and all these little details that exist now have made this automation quite insanely complicated. It is of course necessary that we have 2FA etc, but there is huge potential in solving this I believe.

From a security standpoint, what's considered the "proper" way of assigning a bot access based on a person's 2FA? Would that be some sort of limited scope expiring token like GitHub's fine-grained personal access tokens?

Security isn't the only issue here. There are more and less "proper" ways of giving bots access to a system. But the whole field of RPA exists in large part because the vendors don't want you to access the system this way. They aren't going to give you a "proper" way of assigning bot access in a secure way, because they explicitly don't want you to do it in the first place.

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

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Post by zukzuk »

iwontberude wrote: post #453
aduffy wrote: post #374

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This has existed for a long time, it's called "RPA" or Robotic Process Automation. The biggest incumbent in this space is UiPath, but there are a host of startups and large companies alike that are tackling it. Most of the things that RPA is used for can be easily scripted, e.g. download a form from one website, open up Adobe. There are a lot of startups that are trying to build agentic versions of RPA, I'm glad to s…

UiPath can't figure out how to make a profitable business since 2005 and we are nearing the end of this hype cycle. I am not so sure this will lead anywhere. I am a former investor in UiPath.

Attempts at commercialization in technology seem to often happen twice. First we get the much-hyped failure, and only later we get the actual thing that was promised.

So many examples come to mind… RealVideo -> YouTube, Myspace -> Facebook, Laserdisc -> DVD, MP3 players -> iPod…

UiPath may end up being the burned pancake, but the underlying problem they’re trying to address is immensely lucrative and possibly solvable (hey if we got the Turing test solved so quickly, I’m willing to believe anything is possible).

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

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Post by sumedh »

loktarogar wrote: post #505
lr1970 wrote: post #487

I am curious why "upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet" instead of simply Claude 3.6 Sonnet? Minor version increment is a standard way of versioning update. Am i missing something or it is just Anthropic marketing?

Probably because there was no 3.1-3.4, and that the .5 is mostly just to represent that it's an upgrade on Claude 3 but not quite enough to be a Claude 4

Chrome is at version 130, who really cares about the version number.

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

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Post by ta8645 »

szundi wrote: post #642
ta8645 wrote: post #638

Still can't use their services. They still require a phone number for some reason. What about those of us who don't have one?

Buy a sim card, fixed.

I'd have to also buy a phone, and i'm not doing that for a single service. It's a ridiculous requirement, that people are far too willing to accept.
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