[HN Gopher] Claude for Google Sheets
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Claude for Google Sheets
Author : georgehill
Score : 37 points
Date : 2023-12-12 20:48 UTC (2 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (docs.anthropic.com)
| henry_pulver wrote:
| Seems to me a bit of an odd launch from Anthropic
|
| Aren't their core users developers? Why release a sheets
| extension?
| fatherzine wrote:
| by users, worldwide JavaScript 17M
| Python 15M Java 14M PHP 8M
| Go 3M ===== Excel 750M
| lawrenceyan wrote:
| Google Sheets and Excel are Turing complete
| cainxinth wrote:
| I assume it's because Google is one of their biggest investors
| and they are pursuing a range of integrations with them.
| jeffbee wrote:
| Spreadsheet people are the world's most common developers. A
| spreadsheet is just a programming environment where every
| memory address has a visual representation on-screen.
| fatso784 wrote:
| This seems like a sheets implementation of something like
| ChainForge (https://github.com/ianarawjo/ChainForge).
|
| It's curious that Anthropic is entering the LLMOps tooling space
| ---this definitely comes as a surprise to me, as both OpenAI and
| HuggingFace seem to avoid building prompt engineering tooling
| themselves. Is this a business strategy of Anthropic's? An
| experiment? Regardless, it's cool to see a company like them
| throw their hat into the LLMOps space beyond being a model
| provider. Interested to see what comes next.
| dandv wrote:
| I'm the developer of CfSh. AMA.
| gemanor wrote:
| Is it in-house project of anthropic or more like partnership?
| throwaw12 wrote:
| Seems shift in the focus of company from providing models to
| providing apps on top of models.
|
| I wonder what's the reason, is it they reached some kind of
| "local" maximum where they couldn't improve the models anymore or
| is it related to funding
| dragonwriter wrote:
| Models are infrastructure on which applications are built, but
| if you don't have both the clearly best models _and_ a moat
| that prevents competitors from catching up, the people making
| money aren 't going to be you selling commodity models, but the
| people selling applications which can even be model agnostic.
|
| And Claude, while it may be the nearest competitor among paid
| models to OpenAI GPT-4, isn't both clearly best and moat-
| protected.
| skybrian wrote:
| I read somewhere that people would buy an electric motor with
| various attachments, instead of buying home appliances that
| contain electric motors like we do now.
| skybrian wrote:
| This is for the people who have an API key. It's limited access.
| behnamoh wrote:
| What is Anthropic doing and who is their customer? AFAIK they
| over-censor their models, have subpar quality even compared to
| Llama 2 and Falcon 180B, have been generally even more closed
| than OpenAI, their pricing isn't competitive, no function
| calling, their long context window isn't that accurate.
|
| Why are they even in business yet?
| aprilthird2021 wrote:
| There's enough room in the market, and the tech is early enough
| that little paying fandoms can pop up anywhere. Similarly to
| crypto, all the hopefuls believe their chosen AI will dominate
| the others and become the AI Godhead (loosely)
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