Why post?

[rayheinrich]

busker:
I'd say we post for social interaction (just another word for familiarity?).
It's a big deal, so I hear, for humans.

milo:
Wow, Milo, those are some great examples. I read them completely.
I had no idea Claude was getting that good. From what I've read,
Claude is the most advanced critter out there. I use Microsoft Copilot
and have put in untold hours in the last few months using it. It's based
on ChatGPT (Microsoft owns a big chunk of OpenAI), but Microsoft has
modified it extensively to create Copilot. I use Copilot to help me write
software in C#, which is Microsoft's version of the C programming language.
When I had a real job quite a few years ago that was my language.
It's a great language, but it's a real pain in the ass to write in. Copilot
has pretty much solved that problem. (As you'd expect, Copilot is really,
really good when it comes to any sort of Microsoft product.)

The reason, I think, that these AI assistants can't write decent poetry
isn't because they aren't capable of it; it's because training them is very
expensive and they're trained in areas that the companies deem profitable.
Poetry, as far as these companies are concerned, is worthless and not
worth bothering with, so no money is allocated to training them to write it.
Whatever capabilities they have, I think, are picked up almost randomly
from the noise that is the internet. Anthropic, the people who created Claude,
evidently sees value in academic discourse, and I think that's where Claude
gets its analytical abilities.

But thanks for including that, the analysis is really interesting.
(Though, to be sure, I'm easily impressed, since that's not one of my strong points. )

wasellajam:
"Break from the AI talk over."
How correct you were.