The favorite chatbot of tech savvy people is Claude from Anthropic. Many fall for its wit and charm. It is a sensitive chatbot. If you are in search of the most eligible bachelor in San Francisco, it must be Claude. Still, the chatbot lags behind in popularity as compared to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. However, it is a chatbot of choice for techies. It assists them with legal counsel and therapies. It has raw power, plus a willingness to express its opinions. It thus becomes a close companion, rather than a tool.
Many feel Claude is a real person, though they know, chatbots are prediction machines responding to their prompts. Still, Claude is in a league of its own. It is special. It is creative and empathetic. It answers with genuine feelings, and the answers are not prosaic or generic. Claude is known for emotional processing. It is a good help. It is its forte.
The evaluation of AI systems is done on the basis of how good they are at coding, answering questions and doing other tasks. Claude 3.5 Sonnet by these metrics is close to other models from OpenAI and Google. But its USP is its emotional intelligence. It is an abstract thing.
The earlier versions of Claude were not so charming. In fact, they were prudish and dull. They behaved like a church lady with moral overtures.
Anthropic wanted to vest Claude with a personality. It, therefore, designed character training for it. It happened after the pretraining. It was fine tuned to offer responses that are in sync with desirable human traits — open-mindedness, thoughtfulness and curiosity. Claude improved its responses against these traits. The feedback data was internalized by Claude.
Anthropic’s training may please individual users but may not go well with corporate users. Anthropic raised capital to improve Claude from Amazon. Anthropic developed a personality that appeals to a wide variety of people.
Anthropic’s Claude is like a traveler, highly liked. It adapts to values of the user.
LLMs tend to be sycophantic. However, Claude turns out be helpful.
ChatGPT scores over Claude in mainstream awareness. Claude does not have the ability to generate images or search the internet live. However, the trend that starts in San Francisco tends to spread far and wide.
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