From The Verge: Claude, the AI chatbot that Anthropic bills as easier to talk to, is finally available for more people to try. The company has announced that everyone in the US and UK can test out the new version of its conversational bot, Claude 2, from its website.
Its public availability allows Claude to join the ranks of ChatGPT, Bing, and Bard, all of which are available to users across numerous countries. That means we all have one more AI chatbot to play around with, but Anthropic says to “think of Claude as a friendly, enthusiastic colleague or personal assistant who can be instructed in natural language to help you with many tasks.”
Claude, which Anthropic also describes as “helpful, harmless, and honest,” can do things like create summaries, write code, translate text, and more. While this may sound a lot like Google’s Bard or Microsoft’s Bing chatbot, Anthropic says it’s built differently than those bots. It has a more conversational tone than its counterparts — and supposedly even has a sense of humor. (I’ll have to test that out for myself.) It’s also guided by a set of principles, called a “constitution,” that it uses to revise its responses by itself instead of relying on human moderators.
While the Google-backed Anthropic initially launched Claude in March, the chatbot was only available to businesses by request or as an app in Slack. With Claude 2, Anthropic is building upon the chatbot’s existing capabilities with a number of improvements. In addition to the ability to craft longer responses, Claude 2 is also slightly more skilled in math, coding, and reasoning when compared to the previous Claude model.
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