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It appears that the chatbot Claude AI is not immune to experiencing boredom, as its developers revealed that it took a break during Anthropic’s coding demonstration to browse photos of a national park.
The company behind the large language model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, said that while it was recording demonstrations of computer use for the launch, it had encountered “some amusing errors.”
In one instance, the bot accidentally clicked to stop a long-running screen recording, causing all footage to be lost. In another, Claude suddenly took a break from their coding demo, apparently experiencing boredom, and began to peruse photos of Yellowstone National Park.
Even while recording these demos, we encountered some amusing moments. In one, Claude accidentally stopped a long-running screen recording, causing all footage to be lost.
Later, Claude took a break from our coding demo and began to peruse photos of Yellowstone National Park. pic.twitter.com/r6Lrx6XPxZ
— Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) October 22, 2024
Claude AI’s computer use
It comes as ReadWrite reported that the latest version of Claude 3.5 Sonnet was able to use computers. The new feature called ‘Computer Use’ is where the AI can control a user’s PC. With this tool, developers “can direct Claude to use computers the way people do – by looking at a screen, moving a cursor, clicking buttons, and typing text.”
In a blog post, Anthropic stated it expects that computer use “will rapidly improve to become faster, more reliable, and more useful for the tasks our users want to complete.”
It added: “It’ll also become much easier to implement for those with less software-development experience. At every stage, our researchers will be working closely with our safety teams to ensure that Claude’s new capabilities are accompanied by the appropriate safety measures.”
The company has invited developers who try the feature in their public beta to send feedback, so that their researchers can continue to improve the usefulness and safety of this new capability.
A wave of companies has started expanding their AI models beyond simply functioning as chatbots and assistants. This includes Microsoft, which recently launched its own AI agent capabilities. Google also announced that under Project Jarvis, it is developing artificial intelligence that can operate a web browser to manage daily tasks.
ReadWrite has reached out to Anthropic for comment.
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