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Published · transcript-backedErik Schluntz: belief
28 Nov 2024 Latent Space The new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Computer Use, and Building SOTA Agents — with Erik Schluntz, Anthropic
“There's certain things that it's not very good at yet. But I'm really excited, I think, most broadly, not just for new things that weren't possible before, but as a much lower friction way to implement tool use.”
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- Erik Schluntz
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- 28 Nov 2024
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…I was like, wow, this is pretty cool. So I was like, wow, yeah, this thing can actually use a computer. And certainly, it is still beta. There's certain things that it's not very good at yet. But I'm really excited, I think, most broadly, not just for new things that weren't possible before, but as a much lower friction way to implement tool use. One anecdote from my days at Cobalt Robotics, we wanted our robots to be able to ride elevators, to go between floors and fully cover a building. The first way that we did this was doing API integrations with the elevator companies. Some of them actually had APIs. We could send a request, and it would move the elevator. Each new company we did took six months to do, because they were very slow.…
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