[HN Gopher] Claude API can now access the internet via "tools" t...
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       Claude API can now access the internet via "tools" that you can
       create
        
       Author : scrollop
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2024-04-05 20:06 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | scrollop wrote:
       | Anthropic have released "tools" for Claude API- seems to be a way
       | to essentially create plugins.
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       | https://youtu.be/6wkFb2_cUik?si=6gdpubgOiSUTlCAq
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       | (Not sure why there isn't a blog post or news on this yet, just a
       | yt video).
       | 
       | I use a GUI for the API called typingmind, which has already
       | implemented these and now you can search the web using google
       | with Claude3.
       | 
       | Here's a screenshot with the sites it searched: (and it was much
       | faster than Chatgpt):
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       | https://i.imgur.com/2HxcT6k.png
       | 
       | Here is Chatgpt4's response:
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       | https://i.imgur.com/IMqPfGK.png
       | 
       | So, not good - reading a page from Nov 2023 (though I wasn't
       | specific, Claude figured it out).
       | 
       | Here is Google 1.0 Ultra's reply:
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       | https://i.imgur.com/bUxRf9S.png
       | 
       | (FYI in the main screenshot I used a query that came to mind that
       | was recent; not trying to be political)
        
       | jondwillis wrote:
       | It already could, using tool code and the API!
        
       | ErikBjare wrote:
       | This is just a more convenient API, it was already possible.
        
       | throwaway63820 wrote:
       | Claude's [new] tool usage is pretty good. Unlike with GPT-4 where
       | I had to really minimize the context and descriptions for each
       | tool, Claude Opus does better when provided more details and
       | context for each tool.
       | 
       | I'm now using it with 9 different tools for https://olly.bot and
       | it hits the nail on the head about 8/10 times. Anthropic says it
       | can handle 250+ tools with 90% accuracy [1], but anecdotally from
       | my production usage in the last 24 hours that seems a little too
       | optimistic.
       | 
       | Of course, it also comes with a few idiosyncracies like sometimes
       | spitting out <thinking> or <answer> blocks, and has more
       | constraints on the messages field, so don't expect a drop-in
       | replacement for OpenAI.
       | 
       | [1] https://docs.anthropic.com/claude/docs/tool-use#best-
       | practic...
        
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