Leverage Anthropic's Claude models for Ai's evolving landscape (AIM123)

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Introduction to Anthropic and Claude

  • Anthropic is a young company founded in 2021, focusing on ensuring the safe transition to transformative AI.
  • They have released the latest version of their language model, Claude 3.5 Sonet, which has improved capabilities in areas like coding, computer vision, and complex reasoning.
  • Examples of Claude 3.5 Sonet's use cases include:
    • Improved code generation and quality for companies like Jane Street.
    • Increased accuracy and efficiency in ticket routing and customer service for DoorDash.
  • The presentation will cover techniques and best practices, including prompt engineering, agents, and the new "computer use" feature.

Computer Use

  • Computer use is a new experimental capability in Claude 3.5 Sonet, allowing the model to interpret screenshots and take actions based on them.
  • This enables Claude to perform tasks like testing apps, manipulating spreadsheets, and planning vacations by browsing the internet.
  • The key concept is that Claude analyzes the screenshot, identifies the necessary commands, and the presenter's code executes those actions.
  • This "agentic workflow" of Claude interpreting and taking actions is a core part of the agent concept.

Prompt Engineering

  • Prompt engineering is crucial for getting the best results from large language models like Claude.
  • Best practices include:
    • Being clear and direct in the prompt.
    • Providing detailed task instructions and examples.
    • Using XML tags to organize long prompts.
    • Leveraging pre-filled responses to steer the model's behavior.
  • Anthropic provides a prompt generator tool to help with prompt engineering.

Tool Use

  • Tool use is the idea of extending Claude's functionality by providing it with a set of tools or capabilities to use.
  • Tools are defined as objects with a name, description, and input schema, which Claude can then interpret and use to take actions.
  • This allows Claude to perform tasks that are outside of its default knowledge, such as looking up stock prices or weather information.
  • Tool use is a foundational concept for the more advanced "computer use" and "agent" capabilities.

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

  • RAG is the process of retrieving and adding external knowledge to supplement what the language model knows.
  • This involves pre-processing data into embeddings, storing them in a vector database, and then retrieving relevant information to include in the model's response.
  • Anthropic discusses emerging research on "contextual retrieval" to provide more relevant context for the retrieved information.
  • RAG can be a powerful technique, but prompt engineering should be the first focus before moving to more complex approaches.

Agents and Fine-Tuning

  • Agents combine language models, tools, and a goal to perform multi-step, iterative tasks, similar to how humans problem-solve.
  • Fine-tuning is a technique to update the underlying weights of a language model on a curated dataset, to improve its performance on specific tasks.
  • Fine-tuning can be useful for introducing behavioral changes or enforcing specific output formats, but it is not a panacea and should be carefully considered.

Evaluation and Iteration

  • Regardless of the techniques used (prompt engineering, RAG, fine-tuning, etc.), it is crucial to have a robust evaluation framework to measure the model's performance.
  • Anthropic emphasizes the importance of iterating on prompts and other aspects, rather than jumping straight to more complex techniques like fine-tuning.
  • The key is to start with prompt engineering, establish a baseline, and then carefully evaluate the need for and impact of more advanced techniques.

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