Claude 3 AI Chatbot | 07 Mar 2024

Source: TH

Why in News?

Recently, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) start-up Anthropic announced its latest family of AI models called Claude 3, stating that it “sets new industry benchmarks across a wide range of cognitive tasks”.

• The family includes three state-of-the-art AI models in the ascending order of capabilities – Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Opus.

What is Claude 3?

• About Claude:
  • Claude is a group of Large Language Models (LLMs) developed by Anthropic.
    • LLMs are a specific class of generative AI models that are trained to understand and generate human-like text.
  • The chatbot is capable of handling text, voice messages, and documents.
  • The chatbot is capable of generating faster, contextual responses compared to its peers.
• Training:
  • Claude sources include the Internet and some licensed datasets using two methods, Supervised Learning (SL) and Reinforcement Learning (RL).
  • In the SL phase, the LLM produces responses to prompts, and then self-assesses them based on a set of guiding principles.
    • It later revises the responses — and according to its makers, this process is aimed at reducing the harmful effects of the AI’s outputs.
  • RL phase involves training the model based on AI-generated feedback, in which the AI evaluates responses based on a set of constitutional principles.
    • These methods, and the general approach, has been chosen with the aim of making Claude helpful and harmless.
• Claude 3:
  • Among the new releases, Claude 3 Opus is the most powerful model, Claude 3 Sonnet is the middle model that is capable and price competitive, and Claude 3 Haiku is relevant for any use case that requires instant responses.
    • Claude Sonnet powers the Claude.ai chatbot for free at present and users only need an email sign-in.
    • However, Opus is only available through Anthropic’s web chat interface and if a user is subscribed to the Claude Pro service on the Anthropic website.
• Limitations of Claude 3:
  • Claude 3 performs well in tasks such as answering factual questions and optical character recognition (OCR), meaning the ability to extract text from images.
    • Reportedly, the new model is good at following instructions and completing tasks like writing Shakespearean sonnets.
  • However, it struggles with complex reasoning and mathematical problems at times. It also exhibited biases in its responses, such as favouring a certain racial group over others.

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