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Claude for Google Sheets
- henry_pulver 3y agoSeems to me a bit of an odd launch from Anthropic Aren't their core users developers? Why release a sheets extension?
- fatherzine 3y agoby users, worldwide JavaScript 17M Python 15M Java 14M PHP 8M Go 3M ===== Excel 750M
- lawrenceyan 3y agoGoogle Sheets and Excel are Turing complete
- VHRanger 3y agoSo is PowerPoint and Minecraft but you won't see me advocating building our next backend out of redstone
- cainxinth 3y agoI assume it's because Google is one of their biggest investors and they are pursuing a range of integrations with them.
- jeffbee 3y agoSpreadsheet people are the world's most common developers. A spreadsheet is just a programming environment where every memory address has a visual representation on-screen.
- theGeatZhopa 3y agoI'm doing spreadsheets right now. If it needs to be dynamic and you don't want to use scripts but rather plain Excel formulas w/o the fancy functions introduced with excel 2010, it's pure programming with a limited syntax:)
- fatso784 3y agoThis seems like a sheets implementation of something like ChainForge (https://github.com/ianarawjo/ChainForge https://github.com/ianarawjo/ChainForge). It's curious that Anthropic is entering the LLMOps tooling space ---this definitely comes as a surprise to me, as both OpenAI and HuggingFace seem to avoid building prompt engineering tooling themselves. Is this a business strategy of Anthropic's? An experiment? Regardless, it's cool to see a company like them throw their hat into the LLMOps space beyond being a model provider. Interested to see what comes next.
- dandv 3y agoI'm the developer of CfSh. AMA.
- throwaw12 3y agoSeems shift in the focus of company from providing models to providing apps on top of models. I wonder what's the reason, is it they reached some kind of "local" maximum where they couldn't improve the models anymore or is it related to funding
- dragonwriter 3y agoModels are infrastructure on which applications are built, but if you don't have both the clearly best models and a moat that prevents competitors from catching up, the people making money aren't going to be you selling commodity models, but the people selling applications which can even be model agnostic. And Claude, while it may be the nearest competitor among paid models to OpenAI GPT-4, isn't both clearly best and moat-protected.
- skybrian 3y agoI read somewhere that people would buy an electric motor with various attachments, instead of buying home appliances that contain electric motors like we do now.
- bertil 3y agoIf the motor is the expensive part, that makes sense. In a way, that’s still what some cheap crates of DIY equipment do: they have a drill, a sander, a vibrating polisher, etc. that are all extensions around a handle/motor core, and a couple of batteries.
- skybrian 3y agoThis is for the people who have an API key. It's limited access.
- behnamoh 3y agoWhat is Anthropic doing and who is their customer? AFAIK they over-censor their models, have subpar quality even compared to Llama 2 and Falcon 180B, have been generally even more closed than OpenAI, their pricing isn't competitive, no function calling, their long context window isn't that accurate. Why are they even in business yet?
- aprilthird2021 3y agoThere's enough room in the market, and the tech is early enough that little paying fandoms can pop up anywhere. Similarly to crypto, all the hopefuls believe their chosen AI will dominate the others and become the AI Godhead (loosely)
- SeanAnderson 3y agoGoogle invested $2B in them - presumably as a moonshot/backup to their own tooling. I have to assume they're encouraged to go different directions than Gemini and if they don't strike gold then they'll wind down/merge into Google?
- bertil 3y agoI haven’t used their service, so I don’t know what you mean by “over-censor,” but there is a very large commercial opportunity for a model that can handle business tasks. Such models would benefit from being prudish and carefully asking questions before inferring anything. If you explicitly market those are replacements for human assistant work, pricing isn’t that much of a problem. The lack of function is a concern that I’m assuming they are addressing—why go on Google Sheets otherwise? The context window is a concern, as business cases typically rely on long prefixes to any prompt containing the business context.
- antiraza 3y agoI asked Claude to help me research the fictional world of an established IP, and it refused, saying it was a fact-based tool and wasn't made to work with fictional content. ¯ \ _ ( ツ ) _ / ¯ An established IP's world is fact from my point of view. I got very little traction there compared to ChatGPT which had a no friction response that I could use to build upon.
- d4rkp4ttern 3y agoStill waiting for a Claude API key it’s been 4 months