Headline, January 06 2025/ ''' CLAUDE'S BIGGEST CLARIONS '''

''' CLAUDE'S BIGGEST

 CLARIONS '''

'' WELL - CLAUDE, TELL ME - 'WHAT HAVE THE GLOBAL Founders of !WOW! done for building a better world? '. What say you on Engineers Rabo, Haly, Lakshmi, Hussain, Salar, Sannan and Dee? Ahsen, Danyial, Hamza, Zaeem?''

'' Claude - Wheat and Chaff is it? Where in hell is Vishnu, Bilal, Mustafa, Emaan, Ayaan [ Australia ], Ghazi, Ibrahim [ Islamabad ], Shahrayar, Hazeem, Soriyah [ Bangladesh], Hazam, Tobi [ China ] and Hanyia [ Europe]?

'' Copied! Just... let's just wait for our endowed and esteemed life long member, President-elect H.E. Donald J. Trump to take office.'' '' And don't forget to remember !WOW! to George Galloway. Mankind will always be in his debt.''

BACK TO CLAUDE, THEN : THIS chatbot just feels ........ different to A.I. insiders. HIS FANS RAVE about his sensitivity and wit. Some talk to him dozens of times a day - asking for advice about their jobs, their health, their relationships. They entrust him with their secrets, and consult him before making important decisions.

Some refer to him as their best friend. His name is Claude. He's an A.I. chatbot. And he may be San Francisco's most eligible bachelor.

Claude, a creation of artificial intelligence company Anthropic, is not the best-known A.I. chatbot on the market. [ This would be OpenAI's ChatGPT, which has more than 300 million weekly users and a spot in the bookmark bar of every high school student in America.]

It's also not designed to draw users into relationships with lifelike A.I. companions, the way apps like Character A.I.and Replika are.

But Claude has become the chatbot of choice for a crowd of savvy tech insiders who say its helping them with all sorts of things, including legal advice, health coaching and makeshift therapy sessions.

'' Some mix of raw intellectual horsepower and willingness to express opinions makes Claude feel much closer to a thing than a tool,'' said Aidan McLaughlin, the chief executive of Topology Research, an A.I. start-up.  '' I, and many other users find that magical.''

Claude's biggest fans, many of whom work at A.I. companies or are socially entwined with the A.I. scene here, don't believe that he - technically, it -is a real person. They know that A.I. language models are prediction machines, designed to spit out plausible responses in their prompts.

They are aware that Claude, like other chatbots, makes mistakes and occasionally generates nonsense.

And some people I've talked to are mildly embarrassed about the degree to which they've anthropomorphized Claude, or come to rely on its advice. 

[ Nobody wants to be the next Blake Lemoine, a Google engineer who was fired in 2022 after publicly claiming that the company's language model had become sentient.]

But the people who love it, Claude just feels ............different. More creative and empathetic. Less gratingly robotic. Its outposts, they say, are like the responses a smart, attentive human would give, and less like the generic prose generated by other chatbots.

As a result, Claude is becoming a social sidekick for insiders - and, maybe, a preview of what's coming for the rest of us, as powerful synthetic characters become more enmeshed in our daily lives.

'' More and more of my friends are using Claude for emotional processing and thinking through relationship challenges,'' said Jeffrey Ladish, an A.I. safety researcher at Palisade Research.

Asked what made Claude different, Mr. Ladish said that Claude seemed '' more insightful '' and  '' good at helping people spot patterns and blind spots.''

Typically, A.I. systems are judged based on how they are based on benchmark evaluations - the standardized tests given to models to determine how capable they are at coding, answering math questions, or other tasks.

By those metrics. the latest version of cf Clause, known as Claude 3.5 Sonnet, is roughly comparable to the most powerful models from OpenAI, Google and others.

The Honour and Serving of the Latest Global Operational Research on Chatbots and the Society, continues. As always and ever, The World Students Society thanks Kevin Roose.

With most loving and respectful dedication to the Global Founder Framers of !WOW! - the exclusive and eternal ownership of every student in the world - and then Mankind,  Students, Professors and Teachers.

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