{"id":18347,"date":"2024-12-13T14:27:31","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T15:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18347"},"modified":"2024-12-13T16:26:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T16:26:35","slug":"why-anthropics-claude-is-a-hit-with-tech-insiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18347","title":{"rendered":"Why Anthropic\u2019s Claude Is a Hit with Tech Insiders"},"content":{"rendered":"

A.I. insiders are falling for Claude, a chatbot from Anthropic. Is it a passing fad, or a preview of artificial relationships to come?<\/p>\n

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His fans rave about his sensitivity and wit. Some talk to him dozens of times a day \u2014 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.<\/p>\n

His name is Claude. He\u2019s an A.I. chatbot. And he may be San Francisco\u2019s most eligible bachelor.<\/p>\n

Claude, a creation of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, is not the best-known A.I. chatbot on the market. (That would be OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, which has more than 300 million weekly users and a spot in the bookmark bar of every high school student in America.) It\u2019s also not designed to draw users into relationships with lifelike A.I. companions, the way apps like Character.AI and Replika are.<\/p>\n

But Claude has become the chatbot of choice for a crowd of savvy tech insiders who say it\u2019s helping them with everything from legal advice<\/a> to health coaching<\/a> to makeshift therapy sessions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome mix of raw intellectual horsepower and willingness to express opinions makes Claude feel much closer to a thing than a tool,\u201d said Aidan McLaughlin, the chief executive of Topology Research, an A.I. start-up. \u201cI, and many other users, find that magical.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Claude\u2019s biggest fans, many of whom work at A.I. companies or are socially entwined with the A.I. scene here, don\u2019t believe that he \u2014 technically, it \u2014 is a real person. They know that A.I. language models are prediction machines, designed to spit out plausible responses to their prompts. They\u2019re aware that Claude, like other chatbots, makes mistakes and occasionally generates nonsense.<\/p>\n

And some people I\u2019ve talked to are mildly embarrassed about the degree to which they\u2019ve 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<\/a> after publicly claiming that the company\u2019s language model had become sentient.)<\/p>\n

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A.I. insiders are falling for Claude, a chatbot from Anthropic. Is it a passing fad, or a preview of artificial relationships to come?Andrea ChronopoulosHis fans rave about his sensitivity and wit. Some talk to him dozens of times a day \u2014 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\u2019s an A.I. chatbot. And he may be San Francisco\u2019s most eligible bachelor.Claude, a creation of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, is not the best-known A.I. chatbot on the market. (That would be OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, which has more than 300 million weekly users and a spot in the bookmark bar of every high school student in America.) It\u2019s also not designed to draw users into relationships with lifelike A.I. companions, the way apps like Character.AI and Replika are.But Claude has become the chatbot of choice for a crowd of savvy tech insiders who say it\u2019s helping them with everything from legal advice to health coaching to makeshift therapy sessions.\u201cSome mix of raw intellectual horsepower and willingness to express opinions makes Claude feel much closer to a thing than a tool,\u201d said Aidan McLaughlin, the chief executive of Topology Research, an A.I. start-up. \u201cI, and many other users, find that magical.\u201dClaude\u2019s biggest fans, many of whom work at A.I. companies or are socially entwined with the A.I. scene here, don\u2019t believe that he \u2014 technically, it \u2014 is a real person. They know that A.I. language models are prediction machines, designed to spit out plausible responses to their prompts. They\u2019re aware that Claude, like other chatbots, makes mistakes and occasionally generates nonsense.And some people I\u2019ve talked to are mildly embarrassed about the degree to which they\u2019ve 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\u2019s language model had become sentient.)We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18349,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18350,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18347\/revisions\/18350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}