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Re:It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word by antirez on Saturday October 05, 2024 @09:57AM (#41749880)
Not possible since Claude is effectively GPT5 level in most tasks (EDIT: coding is not one of them). OpenAI lost the lead months ago. Altman talking about AGI (may take decades or years, nobody knows) is just the usual crazy Musk-style CEO thing that is totally safe to ignore. What is interesting is the incredible steady progresses of LLMs so far.
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Re:It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word by diggan on Saturday October 05, 2024 @10:04AM (#41749942)
> Claude is effectively GPT5 level

Which model? Sonnet 3.5? I subscribed to Claude for while to test Sonnet/Opus, but never got them to work as well as GPT-4o or o1-preview. Mostly tried it out for coding help (Rust and Python mainly).

Definitely didn't see any "leap" compared to what OpenAI/ChatGPT offers today.

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Re:It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word by antirez on Saturday October 05, 2024 @10:09AM (#41749983)
Both, depending on the use case. Unfortunately Claude is better in almost every regard than ChatGPT but fo coding so far. So you would not notice improvements if you test it only for code. Where it shines is understanding complex things and ideas in long text, and the context window is AFAIK 2x than ChatGPT.
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Re:It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word by diggan on Saturday October 05, 2024 @10:32AM (#41750147)
Tried it for other things too, but then they just seem the same (to me). Maybe I'll give it another try, if it has improved since last time (2-3 months maybe?). Thanks!
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