This year, at the annual Oscar party hosted by a friend, I tried something different. I entrusted my ballot to Claude at Anthropic.
It didn’t go well at first, so I asked them to tell me just the winners. Claude responds with a confident selection across almost every category. And it worked.
I won the pool and went home with a box of chocolates and bragging rights.
Alistair Barr used Anthropic’s Claude to land an Oscar nomination Alistair Barr/Business Insider
But here’s the punchline. Claude hadn’t even fully completed the assignment.
A new category at this year’s Oscars, Casting, was unable to select a winner. Could it be that the model is not registering the addition?
And in several other award categories, Claude chose candidates who were not even on the shortlist. Take a look at the photo above to see what went wrong.
However, my vote, with Claude’s help, still exceeded everyone else’s vote at the party.
This feels like a glimpse into the jagged edges of AI. The system is clearly powerful, but sometimes weak, but still good enough to win.
I won’t be the only one showing up next year with an AI-generated ballot.
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