Hello WIRED subscribers! Thank you to everyone who attended our most recent AI Unlocked livestream Q&A session, Chatbot Basics: Beginner Advice For Claude, a ChatGPT Alternative. Staff writer Reece Rogers and senior correspondent Kylie Robison provided an overview of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot, one of the most-used alternatives to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and popular with AI insiders. They also answered audience questions about all kinds of topics, such as the main differences between Claude and ChatGPT, why chatbots hallucinate, privacy considerations, and even using chatbots for spiritual guidance. You can watch the livestream below, and find all of our previous livestreams here.
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Reece Rogers: Hello! How's everyone doing today? Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm excited for another subscriber live stream. I've enjoyed the past ones of these, and today we have a very special guest. We have, Kylie. I'm Reece Rogers, by the way, and I would love for you to introduce yourself.
Kylie Robison: I'm Kylie Robison. I'm a senior correspondent covering AI here in San Francisco for WIRED.
Reece Rogers: Brilliant, read her stories. She has some good ones in the works. We can't talk about it, but they'll be up soon. But yeah, thank you everyone for coming today. We're going to do another Chatbot one. It's been really fun, kind of experimenting and learning more about Chatbots. Together we did ChatGPT a little while back. And now we're here with one of its main alternatives, Claude. We have some great questions from you. I have a demo ready to go on my laptop. Your questions coming through here on my phone so definitely, go ahead and drop any questions you have that you want. And for this one we enable that you can like respond to each other in the questions and like upload questions, so we won't be able to get to all of them. So if you see one you really want answered, go ahead and upload that. We just ask that in in the comments, keep it civil. Keep it respectful. We're here to learn. You can have different opinions. But please be respectful. And yeah, we will send a recording out in a couple days. And the last housekeeping note right at the top: There'll be a one-question feedback survey at the end. So feel free, anything you want to share with us about this or other things working out WIRED, we'd love to hear your feedback any time.
So I would love to start with the main event for today, which is our little software tour of Claude. So, as you can see right here on the screen, it says, Welcome, Reece. So this is the desktop version of Claude, so this might look a little different if it's on. You know your windows, or if it's on, this is on a MacBook, or if it's on the app version, there's also app version of this available. So like, I think, let's before I really dive into the software tour. What is Claude?