ChatGPT competitor emerges - Anthropic's Claude

Saturday, January 14, 2023

As a competitor to ChatGPT, start-up Anthropic has launched an artificial intelligence system called Claude.
Still in closed beta, but receiving $700M in funding.
Opinions of those who tested the comparison are that Claude tries to answer in more detail than ChatGPT.
Claude was good in areas such as jokes, but overall ChatGPT still seemed to dominate.
ChatGPT’s huge popularity makes it more likely that similar competitors or services will emerge.
ChatGPT is preparing for a paid version along with the paid version Professional, and it is expected that money will flow to the AI market as competitors emerge.

Anthropic, a startup co-founded by former OpenAI employees, develops an AI system similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
The system, called Claude, is currently in closed beta.
- Related Twitter thread - currently not accepting sign up
Created using a technology called Constitutional AI
- Construct AI provides a “principle-based” approach to matching AI systems with human intent, allowing ChatGPT-like AI to answer questions using a simple set of principles as a guide.
- The approximately 10 principles that shape this construct AI are based on the concepts of benevolence (maximizing positive impact), non-maliciousness (avoiding harmful advice), and autonomy (respecting freedom of choice).
Claude learned the probabilities of words occurring based on patterns, such as the semantic context of the surrounding text, from the huge number of text examples pulled from the web.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT vs. AnthropicAI’s Claude Comparison
- Asked to Compare Himself to Machines from Science Fiction ‘The Cyberiad’ Asked to Write Poetry - Related Twitter
- Comparing Stanford AI Lab PhD Students - Related Twitter
- Both are similar, but Claude tries to be more helpful, follows requests more closely, and is better at writing in English. Worst coding, worst French, longer response.
AI researcher Dan Elton’s Claude vs. ChatGPT vs. Amazon Alexa Comparison - Related Twitter
- Claude jokes better than ChatGPT.
- Claude is worse at math and coding than ChatGPT.

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