Anthropic's AI Can Now Run And Write Code (techcrunch.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/24/10/25/1751233/anthropics-ai-can-now-run-and-write-code
- Source link: https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/24/anthropics-ai-can-now-run-and-write-code/
> Today, Anthropic launched a new analysis tool that helps Claude respond with what the company describes as " [1]mathematically precise and reproducible answers. " With the tool enabled -- it's currently in preview -- Claude can perform calculations and analyze data from files like spreadsheets and PDFs, rendering the results as interactive visualizations.
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> "Think of the analysis tool as a built-in code sandbox, where Claude can do complex math, analyze data, and iterate on different ideas before sharing an answer," Anthropic wrote in a blog post. "Instead of relying on abstract analysis alone, it can systematically process your data -- cleaning, exploring, and analyzing it step-by-step until it reaches the correct result." Anthropic gives a few examples of where this might be useful. For instance, a product manager could upload sales data and ask Claude for country-specific performance analysis, while an engineer could give Claude monthly financial data and have it create a dashboard highlighting key trends.
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/24/anthropics-ai-can-now-run-and-write-code/
It's a coin flip (Score:2)
50/50 chance that climate change or AI nonsense will destroy our civilization.
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Both of which are caused by humans so in reality, it's humans who will destroy our civilization.
Meh (Score:2)
Is being able to write Javascript considered a difficult feat?
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Only if it's trying to maintain the code I wrote
Calude.ai has been pretty good (Score:1)
From personal experience it seems to me like Claude.ai actually does handle programming specific questions better than other chatbots.
It still can hallucinate but if you want to run anything programming related you may want to give Claude a try.
So they can't code "themselves"? (Score:1)
So what now? Forbidding AI from knowing certain languages? No AI equivalent of a process 0/process 1?
Does it actually work? GenAI coding is BS. (Score:2)
The whole Devin AI developer thing turned out to be a scam. Any tool can "write code". I ran into 3 problems this week that were tricky and decided to try out ChatGPT one was obscure, so OK...ChatGPT failed completely and suggested a solution that didn't even remotely work....but I can forgive that. I have realistic expectations. I went to ChatGPT because I couldn't find the answer in the vendor docs nor stack overflow or Google.
So last night, I had a RegEx issue and thought...well, this is PERFECT for
But. . . (Score:2)
Can it RUN and CHEW gum?
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"mathematically precise and reproducible" doesn't even begin to meet the requirements anyone would have of code. exit(1) is both mathematically precise and reproducible yet doesn't do anything except indicate failure.
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Whoa now, this thing writes javascript. We are talking about web development here. All it needs to do is glue a bunch of barely tested open source projects together using webpack and it'll be better than 90% of the people I interview.
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> it'll be better than 90% of the people I interview.
Not denying that. But that is a _really_ low bar. The term "better crap" comes to mind.
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True. But the average moron does neither understand what "mathematically" nor "precise" nor "reproducible" means, and is going to attribute deep meaning and a high level of achievement to something that is essentially just a very bad idea and an accident waiting to happen.