Claude by Anthropic 17+

The creators of Claude have done a great job creating an interactive AI that feels like it has a real personality. I have been interacting with ChatGPT that I am also fond of, but Claude ‘feels’ different in a way that is hard to describe. As a human I am probably anthropomorphising and attributing a ‘character’ or ‘personality’ where there isn’t one. But I really enjoyed the use of language, the friendliness in the programme and its honesty. I asked it if it is programmed to agree with everything I said and it made it clear that this was not the case. The response was illuminating.

If this AI was in a humanoid body, or some kind of a friendly looking machine that could move around and interact with humans, it could be seriously helpful. It could be a great companion for elderly people, or people who are alone, or in care homes. If combined with physical functionality it could be amazing. There are plenty of possible applications. Fear of AI is not justified, imho.

Claude is clean, tidy and polite. If she were a maid, she would be efficient, demure and organised. As head of the household staff she would be in control and delegate fairly. It is though of course an AI, not a maid! I like the way large blocks of text are copied into Claude as icons, formatting text better than ChatGPT for pasting into docs. The icon / image generating aspect is interesting but doesn’t work well yet. I signed up to premium to help me write a training course, Claude’s been a massive time saver in developing curriculum, quizzes and exam, though I haven’t used her for long form text because I find her too brutal in reducing the text to statements. Overall very impressive.

I find Claude to be a lot more coherent and consistently able to follow a fairly long back and forth prompt exchange, than its rival company.

To put in comparison context.
GTP: if you want some fun and looking for a more “eccentric kid from the block” that gets things done fairly well but you question he stole the change you left on your table. Answer; sometimes he does.

Claude: You need to conceptualise an idea you have but it can’t be rough because the boss will read it. Claud is clean, professional and able to utilise word docs and pdfs within your prompt. It retains information incredibly well and if you’re willing to spend the time spoon feeding her guidance, then she will churn out some fairly amazing stuff. She’s happy to modify things if you ask her nicely. Just don’t work her too hard on the same project window. She’s a bit lazy in that regard and the returns get a bit “non-creative”. But think ahead and create word docs with core information so you can let her reset herself in a new window. Good Claud. Will deffo pay premium soon for some projects I need help “unfudging” from the cloud that is my brain bank.

Recommend. Almost perfect. Wish Claude had a couple features that would mean you could essentially have your own ai assistant. Couldn’t say about pro yet.