Will Claude AI Unseat ChatGPT?

Claude AI is touted as a viable alternative to ChatGPT that will take the world by storm. It is a creation of the startup Anthropic AI founded by former Open AI members. Viewed as an ethical tool on account of its conforming to a constitutional AI document that has prescribed principles like freedom, privacy and opposition to inhumane treatment it promises to be extremely safe and therefore reliable. [1]

Claude boasts an online version available at Claude.ai. It is also available as an iOS app as well as developer API. Apart from a free version, Anthropic lets you access it at $20 per person (Pro) as an individual subscriber. There is another price point of $30 per person (Team) comprising of a group of at least 5 subscribers. [2]

Cluade AI has a friendly and pleasant interface and is great fun to tinker around with. It helps you with a variety of tasks including analysis, writing, coding, math or any kind of creative project you might require help with. At first glance, it doesn’t seem to be too different from ChatGPT and Google Gemini in the way that it fields questions.

How is it Different?

As mentioned earlier in the article Claude AI is built on the premise of minimizing risk emanating from the use of AI and augmenting model safety. Using the principles of “constitutional AI”, Anthropic seeks to align Claude AI’s action with human values. What sets it apart is that it doesn’t retrain its model as a default action every time a user interacts with LLM.  That is something that would appeal very much to businesses that use it for carrying out work related tasks. Claude is also apparently more reticent in its responses to queries almost to a fault, often not answering the most of innocuous of queries, reinforcing its safety focused approach.[3]

Then there is the fact that unlike ChatGPT, Claude possesses the ability to read, understand and summarize uploaded files. Besides it can manage 195000 words against a mere 4000 words (in context) by ChatGPT. The greater ability to apply context is quite significant- being able to tell the difference between a minister who is a priest and somebody who holds a position in government is an example of this. The fact that it provides information up to August 2023 makes it more contemporary. [4]

Will Claude unseat Chat GPT?

It is too early to say, but people have very good things to say about Claude already. Quite a few of them find it faster than ChatGPT when it comes to everything from generating ideas and helping one write better. It also doubles up as a mean editor and its copywriting abilities are not to be scoffed at. Of course, it summarizes beautifully as well. [5]

Claude AI is here to stay and you will be hearing a lot about it in the time ahead. Watch the space!

[1] https://www.pluralsight.com/resources/blog/data/what-is-claude-ai

[2] https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/feature/Claude-AI-vs-ChatGPT-How-do-they-compare

[3] https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/feature/Claude-AI-vs-ChatGPT-How-do-they-compare

[4] https://www.zdnet.com/article/4-things-claude-ai-can-do-that-chatgpt-cant/

[5] https://indiaai.gov.in/article/can-claude-2-really-dethrone-chatgpt