Look out, ChatGPT: this rival chatbot can now read a whole novel in under a minute

Date:
Fri, 12 May 2023 12:08:40 +0000

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This rival AI, named Claude, has one big advantage over ChatGPT: a much
longer memory.

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The internets beloved ChatGPT has a new rival and its name is Claude?

Yes, OpenAI competitor Anthropic has its own chatbot to take on the heavy hitters like ChatGPT and Google Bard , and Claude has just received a major upgrade to give it a leg up against the competition: an enormous memory
boost.

Memory is one of the key limitations of most chatbots, and it isnt one that has been widely discussed during the current explosion of AI popularity. Its what dictates an AIs context window - which is to say, the amount of information a chatbot can handle within a single interaction before it starts to forget information from earlier.

Although this data isnt strictly measured in words, ChatGPT can currently handle around 3,000 words of text in a single conversation with a user before it starts to lose track of things. If youre a paying ChatGPT Plus customer, you mightve been lucky enough to access the limited-release full model of GPT-4, which can track about three to four times that amount.

After a recent memory boost, Claude - I love that name, by the way - can now process approximately 75,000 words within a single interaction. Anthropic claims that it can process an entire novel at incredible speeds; the company made Claude read The Great Gatsby twice, with a single sentence edited - and the chatbot picked out the difference in just 22 seconds. A longer memory could mean fewer AI 'hallucinations'

Obviously, this is a big step forward for AI development - not least because it would take the average human five hours or more to read a novel like
Gatsby in its entirety. If you ask ChatGPT to summarize a novel for you, itll collate its response from human-authored summaries from around the internet; Claude could actually write one itself. Its possible that Claude could become a better choice than ChatGPT when it comes to AI-assisted writing .

On top of that, memory is the unspoken problem a lot of AI chatbots have
right now. Its the reason why some chatbots - like Microsofts Bing AI - have had response limits imposed on them, to avoid the AI behaving strangely when it forgets earlier points in a lengthy conversation. It's fairly easy to bend ChatGPT to your will if you know the right tricks - hopefully, Claude will be a bit harder to fool. (Image credit: Anthropic)

These conversational glitches fall under the umbrella of what some people are calling AI hallucinations , which can lead to chatbots inventing wrong
answers to queries and generally playing up. Claudes newly-improved memory capacity wont just enable it to tackle larger blocks of information, but will hopefully help it stay on-topic during lengthy interactions.

Anthropics upgraded AI isnt available to the wider public just yet - you have to be a business partner with access to Claudes API, and theres no word on pricing - but this is a step in the right direction for improving the capabilities of chatbots - especially since theyre being rapidly integrated into every aspect of our digital lives.

Of course, this doesnt fix the many, many other problems with AI . Its good
to see, though, that Anthropic holds safe and ethical AI development at the core of its ethos, stating on its own website that We do not know how to
train systems to robustly behave well - because right now, nobody does. Maybe well get there, though - and maybe Claude will be the AI to lead us there.

Via The Verge .



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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/news/look-out-chatgpt-this-rival-chatbot-can-now-rea d-a-whole-novel-in-under-a-minute


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