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Anthropic’s Claude 3 causes stir by seeming to realize when it was being tested

reader comments 86 On Monday, Anthropic prompt engineer Alex Albert caused a small stir in the AI community when he tweeted about a scenario related to Claude 3 Opus, the largest version of a new large language model launched on Monday. Albert shared a story from internal testing of Opus where the model seemingly demonstrated… Read More »

The AI wars heat up with Claude 3, claimed to have “near-human” abilities

Enlarge / The Anthropic Claude 3 logo. reader comments 92 On Monday, Anthropic released Claude 3, a family of three AI language models similar to those that power ChatGPT. Anthropic claims the models set new industry benchmarks across a range of cognitive tasks, even approaching “near-human” capability in some cases. It’s available now through Anthropic’s… Read More »

AI poisoning could turn open models into destructive “sleeper agents,” says Anthropic

Benj Edwards | Getty Images reader comments 30 Imagine downloading an open source AI language model, and all seems well at first, but it later turns malicious. On Friday, Anthropic—the maker of ChatGPT competitor Claude—released a research paper about AI “sleeper agent” large language models (LLMs) that initially seem normal but can deceptively output vulnerable… Read More »

ChatGPT was the spark that lit the fire under generative AI, one year ago today

Enlarge / An artist’s interpretation of what ChatGPT might look like if embodied in the form of a robot toy blowing out a birthday candle. Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 37 with One year ago today, on November 30, 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT. It’s uncommon for a single tech product to create as… Read More »

The AI-assistant wars heat up with Claude Pro, a new ChatGPT Plus rival

Enlarge / The Anthropic Claude logo. Anthropic / Benj Edwards reader comments 11 with On Thursday, AI-maker and OpenAI competitor Anthropic launched Claude Pro, a subscription-based version of its Claude.ai web-based AI assistant, which functions similarly to ChatGPT. It’s available for $20/month in the US or 18 pounds/month in the UK, and it promises five-times-higher… Read More »

New ChatGPT rival, Claude 2, launches for open beta testing

reader comments 8 with On Tuesday, Anthropic introduced Claude 2, a large language model (LLM) similar to ChatGPT that can craft code, analyze text, and write compositions. Unlike the original version of Claude launched in March, users can try Claude 2 for free on a new beta website. It’s also available as a commercial API… Read More »

Anthropic’s Claude AI can now digest an entire book like The Great Gatsby in seconds

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a robot reading a book. Benj Edwards / Stable Diffusion reader comments 15 with On Thursday, AI company Anthropic announced it has given its ChatGPT-like Claude AI language model the ability to analyze an entire book’s worth of material in under a minute. This new ability comes from expanding… Read More »

AI gains “values” with Anthropic’s new Constitutional AI chatbot approach

Enlarge / Anthropic’s Constitutional AI logo on a glowing orange background. Anthropic / Benj Edwards reader comments 4 with On Tuesday, AI startup Anthropic detailed the specific principles of its “Constitutional AI” training approach that provides its Claude chatbot with explicit “values.” It aims to address concerns about transparency, safety, and decision-making in AI systems… Read More »

Anthropic introduces Claude, a “more steerable” AI competitor to ChatGPT

reader comments 24 with Share this story On Tuesday, Anthropic introduced Claude, a large language model (LLM) that can generate text, write code, and function as an AI assistant similar to ChatGPT. The model originates from core concerns about future AI safety and Anthropic has trained it using a technique it calls “Constitutional AI.” Two… Read More »