ChatGPT-4 has been dethroned. Finally

Good morning, humans.

The reign of GPT-4 as the undisputed leader of AI models could be coming to an end. While we await the possible arrival of GPT-5, Claude Opus is the new king.

In today's newsletter:

• Claude Opus from Anthropic dethrones OpenAI's GPT- …

• Hume: the AI that understands your emotions

Let's get started!

Claude Opus from Anthropic dethrones OpenAI's GPT-4

The American company Anthropic has presented its latest innovation, Claude 3 Opus, a conversational model that has managed to position itself in first place in the prestigious LMSYS Chatbot Arena Leaderboard, a platform for evaluating AI models.

But supremacy is not the only surprise

Haiku, the smallest of the Claude 3 models, has beaten a previous version of GPT-4. Its modest size is impressive, but its performance at a significantly lower cost than GPT-4 represents a disruptive change in the AI landscape.

OpenAI under pressure

The situation challenges OpenAI, which could see its GPT-3.5 and even GPT-4 models become obsolete in the presence of Claude Haiku. So the expectation is to see what happens with its expected release of GPT-5.

Want to use Claude? Here's a Quick Guide:

1. Visit the Claude website and create an account.

2. Type your query in the text field and press enter.

3. Claude 3 supports text, images, PDFs and other formats.

How can you take advantage of Claude? Some ideas

• Insert long documents (PDFs, research, essays) and ask for a summary.

• You can ask additional questions about the topic.

• Request clear explanations of complex images.

• Ask it to analyze and explain mathematical calculations.

• Get suggestions for improving website designs or even physical spaces.

• Transcribe handwritten notes to digital text.

The Claude 3 Sonnet model is free, while the powerful Opus requires a Claude Pro subscription.

Amazon bets big on AI

Not slow or lazy, Amazon completed a $4 billion investment in Anthropic. This alliance seeks to promote Claude AI models, using resources such as Amazon Bedrock to develop safe and high-impact generative AI applications in various industries.

Hume: the AI that understands your emotions

Hume, an innovative startup in the field of Artificial Intelligence, has presented its revolutionary creation: the Empathetic Voice Interface (EVI). It is proclaimed as the first conversational AI endowed with emotional intelligence, capable of analyzing the user's tone to understand their underlying emotions.

This breakthrough allows EVI to adapt its language and speech to achieve deeper and more meaningful interactions. The AI responds with tones similar to humans, and learns from interactions with users. Its public release is scheduled for April.

A revolution in communication between humans and machines

EVI implies a range of possibilities:

• Virtual assistants with almost human voices.

• Customer service agents that sound like empathetic human beings.

• Therapeutic tools that understand your thoughts and feelings.

Try it yourself! Quick access guide

1. Visit the Hume demo site 

2. Press "start conversation" and enable microphone access.

3. Talk! Say whatever you want and start a chat.

4. Observe how the AI responds and shows your emotional state and tone of voice in the bar on the right.

In a quick test, EVI shows a sense of humor and adapts its tone to yours. While not perfect, it's amazing. It correctly estimates the emotional state most of the time, and the voice sounds 80% similar to a real human voice.

Why is it important?

2023 was the year of text chats, 2024 and beyond will be the year of voice. But who wants to listen to robotic chatbot voices? Current synthetic voices can sound human, but they lose subtlety when speaking long texts.

Hume seeks to solve this with EVI. If successful, we could soon see many more AI tools for therapy and emotional relationships. We could even have speech coaches who detect and analyze our emotions to help us speak in public more effectively.

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Hi 👋 I'm Erik Knobl, Product Designer by day and Generative Artificial Intelligence explorer on weekends. I share my learnings in this newsletter. Consider subscribing to stay in touch.