🏆 New AI beats ChatGPT by far (this is how you can use it now)

AI-HOI AInauts,

Welcome to the latest edition of your favorite newsletter. We are so blown away by the possibilities of this new chatbot! Have you seen it or even tried it out? It's awesome!

So, today we have lots of practical examples plus a few video tool tips for you:

• 🤴 Frighteningly good: What the clever Claude chatbot can do for you

• 👾 New free tools for AI avatar videos

Let's go!

🤴 Frighteningly good: what the latest Claude chatbot can do for you

If we were the New York Post, we would start something like this: This new artificial intelligence is incredibly good! It will replace sooo many jobs (including yours!), and very few people have any idea what's in store for them...

But we're not the New York Post. Enough clickbait and hype, because don't worry: it's not (quite) like that!

What is it all about?

Until a few days ago, we thought ChatGPT was the best of all worlds. But as soon as we got our hands on the new Claude Sonnet 3.5 from Anthropic, we gave OpenAI the cold shoulder and got excited about the new possibilities. It beats the competition in practically every respect.

But ... the best thing is the "artifacts" and the new user experience! Watch these videos.

• So, the new "Artifacts" function makes it possible to interact with and edit the results directly in the app.

• Content such as code, content or website designs are created and displayed in a separate window directly next to the conversation.

• This creates a dynamic workspace where you can see, edit and build on the results in real time. No further downloading or executing of code is required.

• In other words: Claude literally codes entire web apps for you... in just a few seconds! You have an entire (development) team in your pocket at all times.

The most important facts, and a series of examples:

• Claude 3.5 Sonnet is already available for free on the web at Claude.ai and on the Claude iOS app, with higher usage limits for Pro and Team subscribers.

• For developers, it is also available via the Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock and Google Clouds Vertex AI (even with a Replit integration!).

• According to benchmarks, it is the "best" model in almost all areas. GPT-4o, Gemini 1.5 Pro and Metas Llama 3 400B are beaten in seven out of nine overall benchmarks and in four out of five vision benchmarks.

• Even slightly less scientific tests show the same picture.

• This includes coding, college-level reasoning, humor, image recognition, writing, translating, more human-like communication, ...

• Claude 3.5 Haiku (the little brother) and Claude 3.5 Opus (the big sister) are coming later this year, and work is also underway on features such as "Memory" to store user-specific details.

• Claude 3.5 Sonnet is already twice as fast, better and massively cheaper than its predecessor Claude 3 Opus (via API).

But benchmarks aren't everything - what counts is how the model performs in practical use.

It's super easy to access:

1. Register/create an account at Claude.ai

2. Activate the new artifact feature under "Feature Preview"

3. Insert one of the following example use cases in the chatbot - and be amazed!

Here are some possible use cases:

Claude can create documents, code, mermaid diagrams, vector graphics, visualizations, games, apps and much more.

• Upload a screenshot and create a website (from scratch)

• Web application (ChatGPT, Interview, ElevenLabs Sound-Generator, ...) or generate games (for example: Memory, Black Jack, TicTacToe, Space Shooter, Doom, Tetris, Guitar Hero, ...).

• Program a browser extension or script

• Visualize data, animate facts, explain or start simulation, create presentations, …

Here are a few prompts for inspiration:

Now it's about putting some prompts into Claude to get a feeling what's possible. As Ilya wouls say: "Can you feel the AGI?!"

Develop the most exciting blackjack game on the Internet. The presentation should be classy and professional (appealing design and color scheme, intuitive interaction elements). 

Think step by step. Make the prompt 5x better and extend the game with cool features (IMPORTANT: pay attention to your token limit! Give me the result in one-shot - no feedback, code comments or explanations, just do it!).

You are a time management professional with a PhD in behavioral psychology.

Think step by step and expand the following idea so that the result is 10x better and the user can work through their tasks as efficiently and effectively as possible! 

Create a visually appealing, interactive to-do list with a Pomodoro timer. Don't give me feedback, questions or explanations, but create it directly (one-shot - note your token limit!).

I want to find the right partner for life. You can help me if you coach me. You're a combination of Neil Strauss, the author of "The Game", and dating guru David de Angelo.

Create a visually appealing, interactive and entertaining game where you guide me through different fictional situations (flirting, dating, etc.) and give me a starting point, and then give me different multiple choice answers to choose from. After each question, give me the answer as well as feedback and tips.

IMPORTANT: Make the game 5x better and enhance it with relevant and important features that will help me find my partner for life. Always address me as you, no explanations, let's play!

Create a highly interactive, visually stunning React component of a solar system at scale. Implement this using only CSS, your available libraries, optimized for performance and educational content. Create the component in one-shot, without additional explanations or comments. 

Twitter X is full of many more exciting applications. Our friend Pliny immediately teased out the system prompt, Pietro has an agent worked out and others are already saying that Claude can make decisions just as well as the supreme court in the US (in Brazil, GPT is already making its move).

Our Take: Holy s… mokes!

A small drawback is that Claude has no internet access and can't generate/display any pictures. But we can live with that!

In 15 minutes, we "programmed" a cool browser extension that sends data to Zapier via a Webhook. Or a Google Sheets app script with which we can use with Claude, GPT and Gemini to directly add AI-formulas in the tables. ... and all done without ZERO programming knowledge!

Anthropic, which was co-founded by a number of ex-OpenAI employees, has set the bar high! The fact that Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger is now also on board as Chief Product Officer is also a big plus.

OpenAI has a lot going on at the moment ... GPT-4o doesn't quite live up to the hype (where's the new voice feature?), and there was a huge outcry when the retired US spy chief was welcomed to the board.

And the fact that former chief researcher Ilya Sutskever is founding his own company with a focus on "secure superintelligence" is not exactly conducive to trust either.

But as always in the arena of chatbots and voice models, the next surprise is around the corner - and will arrive probably sooner than we expect ...

👾 New free tools for AI avatar videos

Let's continue with the topic of videos!

After KLING, LumaLabs Dream Machine and last but not least Runway, a new tool is now in the spotlight.

We are talking about Hedra.com. You can use it to animate images with amazingly good voice output, realistic movements and lip synchronization. And it's currently free to use.

The user interface is super simple: enter your script, select the voice, upload an image (or have one generated) and poof ... in a few minutes you have your clip. Well done!

And that's not the only video news. HeyGen just got $60 million in funding, and TikTok has unveiled Symphony - a new AI suite for creators. This new TikTok tool suite helps you create content, whispers the hottest trends in your ear and turns your thoughts into cool scripts.

The Symphony Creative Studio also dreams up videos that look like you've been working on them for days. You can even use AI avatars that look like real people and talk in different languages.

And for the advertisers among us: Symphony also has a few tricks up its sleeve to spice up your ads. Auto-diagnostics, optimization, new variants - no problem! It all sounds pretty exciting, and we're waiting for it to go live.

And that’s a wrap! But no need to be sad. The AInauts will be back soon, with new content for you.

Reto & Fabian from the AInauts

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