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Anthropic's new Claude AI model can use a PC 'the way people do'

PCWorld

If you're worried about artificial intelligence taking your job, you might want to sit down for this one. AI startup Anthropic has demonstrated a new "Claude" model called that can look at a computer screen and operate a virtual mouse and keyboard, "the way people do," according to promotional material. In the video demo, researcher Sam Ringer shows Claude performing a bit of data entry "drudge work," with the AI model using screenshots of a Mac desktop to find relevant information and submit a form. It is indeed the kind of thing that employees all over the world do every day, though Ringer notes that this is a "representative example." Exactly how much of the video is edited isn't known.


The Unexpected Philosophical Depths of the Clicker Game Universal Paperclips

The New Yorker

On a less-trafficked floor of the Whitney Museum, curators have scoured the museum's permanent collection to display art that uses "instructions, sets of rules, and code" to investigate a world "increasingly driven by automated systems." In the nineties, the game designer Frank Lantz produced such work. "I would make some marks on a page, and then I would just connect the endpoints of all the lines to the nearest unconnected endpoint, and then I would add another rule," he said. His method had a whiff of misanthropy. He wanted to render himself obsolete and let something else take over. "I was trying to understand--where does drawing come from?