Anthropic shares hilarious demo of Claude AI ditching a coding prompt to look at scenic national park photos on Google: “Claude has ADHD, this is very relatable”
New demo shows Claude AI taking a break from coding to glance at scenic photos of a national park.
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With the emergence ofgenerative AI, there’s a lot of speculation and predictions swirling in the air about the augmentation of certain professions using the technology. To this end,the banking sector,design jobs, and software development seem to be first on AI’s chopping block.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang indicated that coding could be dead in the waterwith the rapid adoption of AI in software development companies. He discouraged the next generation from taking up software development as a profession. Instead, he recommends seeking alternative career paths in biology, education, manufacturing, or farming.
Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman seemingly shares the same sentiments,predicting a drastic shift in the software development landscape. “If you go forward 24 months from now, or some amount of time — I can’t exactly predict where it is — it’s possible that most developers are not coding,” added Garman.
As you might already know, AI is well beyond the image and text generation phase and is on to sophisticated and advanced tasks like coding. For instance, OpenAI’sGPT-4oandOpenAI-o1 modelshave been touted for theiradvanced capabilities in writing and detecting errors in code.
However, recent coding demos featuring Anthropic’s Claude AI model suggest that we might have jumped the gun a tad about AI taking over the profession from humans.
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Anthropic has seemingly been documentingupgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet’s advances where it happened to stumble on some interesting discoveries.
In one of the company’s demos, Claude AI can be seen writing code, but in another instance, it seemingly changes its train of thought and swiftly transitions to Google and schemes through a library of images of Yellowstone National Park.One user joked:
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“Claude innocently checking out the dormant super volcano that could send us back to the Ice Age.”
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/r6Lrx6XPxZOctober 22, 2024
Another highlighted incident shows Claude AI accidentally disrupting the screen recording of a long clip. In the process, the recorded footage is lost, forcing the daunting and tedious task to be repeated from scratch.
Claude has ADHD, this is very relatableOctober 22, 2024
This news comes at a time when major tech corporations in the AI landscape are big on the automation of tasks using AI agent campaigns. Recently, it was announced thatCopilot Studio will soon support the creation of autonomous agents. Like Salesforce’s Agentforce offering, Microsoft’s Copilot agents will help automate tasks across IT, marketing, sales, customer service, and finance. Salesforce Marc Benioff interpreted the launch as “panic mode.”
The CEO took the opportunity tothrow jabs at Microsoft while tooting Agentforce as the superior and reliable alternative:
“Copilot’s a flop because Microsoft lacks the data, metadata, and enterprise security models to create real corporate intelligence. That is why Copilot is inaccurate, spills corporate data, and forces customers to build their own LLMs. Clippy 2.0, anyone? Meanwhile, Agentforce is transforming businesses now. Agentforce doesn’t just handle tasks—it autonomously drives sales, service, marketing, analytics, and commerce. With data, LLMs, workflows, and security all integrated into a single Customer 360 platform: This is what AI was meant to be.”
Interestingly, Microsoft unveiled a new benchmark calledWindows Agent Arena. It provides a platform for testing AI agents in realistic Windows operating system environments. The platform an avenue for deep research which could significantly enhance the development of AI agents.
Benchmarks shared indicate that multi-modal AI agents have an average performance success rate of 19.5% compared to the coveted average human performance rating of 74.5%, raising performance concerns on top of the security issues abound.
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Kevin Okemwa is a seasoned tech journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya with lots of experience covering the latest trends and developments in the industry at Windows Central. With a passion for innovation and a keen eye for detail, he has written for leading publications such as OnMSFT, MakeUseOf, and Windows Report, providing insightful analysis and breaking news on everything revolving around the Microsoft ecosystem. You’ll also catch him occasionally contributing at iMore about Apple and AI. While AFK and not busy following the ever-emerging trends in tech, you can find him exploring the world or listening to music.
