A startup, Anthropic, with the purpose of responsible development and maintenance of advanced AI for the long-term benefit of humanity, released a pair of updated artificial intelligence models on Tuesday.
New Autonomous Task Feature for Developers with Anthropic’s AI Models
These AI models have the added capability to autonomously perform computer tasks and save users keystrokes.
Anthropic’s Chief Science Officer Jared Kaplan said in an interview that the new “computer use” feature can tell AI “where to move the mouse, where to click, what to type, in order to do quite complicated tasks”.
Designed for software developers, this capability marks a step towards AI agents. AI agents are the programs that can perform complex tasks with minimal human help. Moving beyond the chatbots, these agents are the next big thing in field of AI, as per researchers. Chatbots can write text or code for that matter, but cannot take any action.
Anthropic demonstrated a use case for the feature that entailed coding a basic website, and another that used various programs including Google Search and Apple Maps to plan a sunrise outing.
New Versions of Claude AI with Enhanced Capabilities for Developers
Offering software developers 3 versions of Claude, Anthropic offers its family of AI models at price points that vary based on their performance. This week’s updates come to Sonnet, the mid-tier model, and Haiku, the cheapest.
As per Kaplan, the new 3.5 Haiku can generate computer code in a manner “almost comparable” to the version of Sonnet released in June.
As per the CEO, the company is now focussing to update Opus, which is also the company’s most capable model, by the end of the year.
The computer use feature is currently limited to the new version of Claude 3.5 Sonnet and comes with safeguards to prevent its application toward spam, fraud and election-related misuse, Anthropic said. Kaplan said the AI still makes mistakes.
As per the Chief product officer of Anthropic, Mike Krieger, who is also the co-founder of Instagram, Anthropic is seeking feedback from business customers to figure out how to improve their new feature.
He added that a team in the company is exploring ways to make the capability available for regular consumers, something that the Chief product officer said, he personally wants.
