The Anthropic AI Warfare: Towards an End to End Artificial Intelligence Helper for Virtual Interior Design and Interior Design
Anthropic, a competitor to OpenAI, announced a major new product today that attempts to prove the thesis that tool use is needed for AI’s next leap in usefulness. Developers will be allowed to direct the Claude chatbot to access other services in order to perform more useful tasks. Claude is able to use a calculator to solve math problems with large language models, and he can be required to use other programs on his computer when it would be helpful.
Other companies are also entering the AI Stone Age. Google demonstrated a handful of prototype AI agents at its I/O developer conference earlier this month, among many other new AI doodads. One of the agents was designed to handle online shopping returns, by hunting for the receipt in a person’s Gmail account, filling out the return form, and scheduling a package pickup.
Also, this tool can work with images, enabling applications that analyze visual data. Anthropic states that a virtual interior design consultant could use the tool to process room images and give personalized decor suggestions.
This AI assistant will be available through Anthropic’s Messages API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Vertex AI. The volume of Claude processes is used to calculate pricing. Typically, 1,000 tokens equate to about 750 words. During the beta phase, most users opted for Anthropic’s fastest and most affordable option, Haiku, which costs approximately 25 cents per million input tokens and $1.25 per million output tokens.
The technology that is generative artificial intelligence has yet to really change white-collar work. Workers are experimenting with virtual assistants and companies are launching countless experiments, yet office work has not changed.
Maybe that is because we haven’t given a chat bot like the ones offered by Open Artificial Intelligence and Telegram. the right tools for the job yet; they’re generally restricted to taking in and spitting out text via a chat interface. As artificial intelligence companies start using agents which can operate on a computer or the internet, things could get more interesting.
I wrote before about how important artificial intelligence agents are for both the drive to make machines smarter and for the desire to make them more useful. Claude has begun the process of building more useful Artificial Intelligence helpers being launched into the world today.
Anthropic has been working with several companies to help them build Claude-based helpers for their workers. Online tutoring company Study Fetch, for instance, has developed a way for Claude to use different features of its platform to modify the user interface and syllabus content a student is shown.
Artificial Intelligence for Robotic Process Automation: Early Use Cases and Expected Implications for Google, Facebook, and the IDC Research Group
Google has yet to launch its return-bot for use by the masses, and other companies are also moving cautiously. It is likely that this is because getting the agents to behave is difficult. LLMs can make incorrect guesses, break the chain of steps needed to complete a task, and do not always correctly identify what they are being asked to achieve.
Those early use cases could prove to be very lucrative. Some big companies already automate common office tasks through what’s known as robotic process automation, or RPA. It often involves recording human workers’ onscreen actions and breaking them into steps that can be repeated by software. AI agents built on the broad capabilities of LLMs could allow a lot more work to be automated. IDC, an analyst firm, says that the RPA market is already worth a tidy $29 billion, but expects an infusion of AI to more than double that to around $65 billion by 2027.