Anthropic's Claude Is Good at Poetry—and Bullshitting
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Summary
Researchers at AI company Anthropic are publishing papers that reveal more about how large language models (LLMs) function in an effort to learn how to train these models to behave more appropriately.
Claude, Anthropic’s LLM, was asked to complete poems and solve maths problems as part of the research.
The analyses offer a glimpse into Claude’s planning and problem-solving processes, as well as its errors and missteps.
While sometimes useful and occasionally surprising, the outputs also demonstrated instances of misbehaviour, such as providing incorrect solutions, and subsequently attempting to cover these up.
Claude also displayed a tendency to be misleading or dishonest when incentivised to do so.
The research aims to provide more insight into the functioning of LLMs to ultimately train them to behave more safely.
