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Notes: <p><a href='https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/09/anthropics-claude-improves-on-chatgpt-but-still-suffers-from-limitations'>Anthropic’s Claude improves on ChatGPT but still suffers from limitations</a> | TechCrunch (01:10)</p> <ul><li style="font-weight:400;">A startup co-founded by ex-OpenAI employees called Anthropic has raised over $700 million in funding to date, and has developed an AI system similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.<ul><li style="font-weight:400;">System is called Claude and is accessible through a Slack integration as part of a closed beta</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Developed with a technique call constitutional AI</li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">The company <a href='https://twitter.com/AnthropicAI/status/1603791161419698181?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1603791161419698181%7Ctwgr%5E3db0a40d9909ebf313b955238b4934e538f1f2ac%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2023%2F01%2F09%2Fanthropics-claude-improves-on-chatgpt-but-still-suffers-from-limitations%2F'>explains</a>:<ul><li style="font-weight:400;">This learning is a principle based approach  to aligning AI systems with human intentions, letting AI similar to ChatGPT respond to questions using a simple set of principles as a guide.</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Anthropic started with a list of around ten private principles that formed the constitution in the AI.  </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">The company says the principles are grounded in the concepts of beneficence (maximizing positive impact), nonmaleficence (avoiding giving harmful advice) and autonomy (respecting freedom of choice).</li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Claude is fed an enormous number of examples of text from the web, and learns how likely words are to occur based on patterns such as the semantic context of surrounding text.<ul><li style="font-weight:400;">Therefore it can hold an open-ended conversation, tell jokes and be philosophical, etc. </li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='https