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Ready to meet Claude? This video provides an overview of Claude.ai, an AI chatbot created by Anthropic. It discusses Claude's design and capabilities, including its unusually large token limit which allows for more detailed conversations. We also cover limitations and challenges faced by Claude. Additionally, it features a demonstration of Claude's conversational interface to showcase its strengths and weaknesses firsthand.
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Anthropic recently unveiled Claude, its
own conversational AI assistant designed
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to be helpful, harmless, and honest.
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Claude aims to have natural conversations
and provide useful information to users.
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Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant
powered by Constitutional AI.
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It uses self-supervised learning
to train on diverse datasets and
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everyday conversations.
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Claude can answer questions,
admit mistakes, and
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reject inappropriate requests while
maintaining conversational context.
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A key strength of Claude is its
focus on safety and ethics.
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Constitutional AI aims to align
Claude's goals with human values.
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This allows Claude to avoid biased,
unethical, or
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dangerous responses that other
AI systems struggle with.
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Claude also provides explanations for
its responses when necessary,
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where Claude struggles.
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As an early stage conversational AI,
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Claude still faces limitations
in its capabilities.
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Its knowledge does not yet match larger
models, so some queries may stump it.
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Its conversational abilities are also
limited compared to other Chatbots.
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Anthropic continues to train
Claude to address these gaps.
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Claude's constitutional AI approach
makes it stand out from other chatbots.
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The system rejects harmful requests and
corrects itself to provide helpful,
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honest information.
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Claude also avoids claiming
expertise it does not have.
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Its transparency about limitations
increases trustworthiness.
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All right, let's get started.
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For my first test, I'll give Claude our
project management prompt from before,
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which was write a project checklist for
a new website design and
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development project.
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Okay, Claude is working
on our project checklist.
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It includes phases such as initial
planning, information architecture,
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visual design, and more.
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Each phase has a list
of sub-tasks as well.
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However, each phase only has three tasks,
and some are still pretty broad.
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Let's try asking Claude for
a checklist with more detail.
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I'll jump back into our prompt
input form and simply ask Claude,
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can you create a more detailed list?
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And without hesitation,
Claude begins generating our new list.
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It starts with Phase 1,
Planning and Discovery.
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Here we meet with key stakeholders define
goals, and audiences research competitors,
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and more.
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It then includes phases and tasks for
information architecture and design,
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content development, development and
testing, and launch and post launch.
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Claude has done a fantastic job of
providing a full-featured checklist once
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free prompted.
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This is one of my favorite outputs for
this prompt so far, and
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I would absolutely use this as a start
to planning out a real project, but
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let's move on to our next test.
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In this next test, we'll provide Claude
with our basic math problems and
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see how the Chatbot fares.
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Let's start with the first prompt, what is
12 multiplied by 7 divided by 3 plus 18?
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And just like the other Chatbots before
it, Claude provides the correct answer and
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shows its work, perfect.
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But let's see if I can confuse
Claude with our word problem.
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If it is Friday, October 6th,
2023 right now, what day and
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date will it be 100 days from now?
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Claude replies by suggesting
we think it through.
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It says today is Friday, October 6th,
2023, and to figure out the future date,
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it can add 100 days to today's date,
which would be Sunday, January 14th, 2024.
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Claude is 100% correct on both the day and
the date.
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Admittedly, however, when testing this
prompt prior to recording this course,
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I did get an error where it subtracted
100 days instead of adding them.
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So I would still suggest double-checking
the answers Claude provides,
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just as you would with any Chatbot.
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For the next test,
I wanna see how well Claude can do it,
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writing an email to a client.
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I've heard great things about the writing
quality and capabilities of Claude,
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so let's see what we're able to generate,
I'll use the prompt.
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Write a project kickoff email for
a web design client.
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All right,
here's what Claude has provided.
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Dear Jane, I'm looking forward to kicking
off the website redesign project for
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ABC Company next week.
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To make sure we get off to a great start,
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I wanted to provide some details on
the meeting agenda, and timeline.
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The kickoff meeting will be next Tuesday,
October 10th at 10:00AM at your office.
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During this meeting, we'll discuss
the overall goals target audiences content
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strategy, sitemap, and
functionality for the new website.
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Please have any existing analytics
reports, customer feedback or
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other background materials
ready to review.
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After the kickoff, my team will begin
working on an initial site map and
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wireframes.
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We'll plan to present those to you in
about two weeks on October 24th for
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feedback.
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From there, we'll iterate on
the wireframes and design direction.
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I anticipate having a home page design
mock up ready around November 7th.
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Please let me know if you need anything
ahead of our kickoff meeting next week, or
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have any other agenda items to add.
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I'm looking forward to working together on
this exciting project, regards your name.
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For this next demonstration, I would
like to show off Claude's ability to
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handle long form prompts and
large portions of text based data.
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Claude has a 100,000 token limit,
which equals out to about 75,000 words,
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giving Claude the ability to work with
much larger sets of texts than ChatGPT,
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Google Bard, or Bing AI.
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In this example, I'm going to copy
all of the text from a PDF file.
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This PDF is a white paper by Microsoft on
ChatGPT released for educational purposes.
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But before I paste the text in Claude,
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I will show that this much text isn't able
to be processed in ChatGPT or Google Bard.
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All right,
perfect now I have copied the entire PDF,
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let's try pasting it in ChatGPT first.
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In ChatGPT, I'll select the Advanced Data
Analysis model to try its most capable and
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advanced model.
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I've already added a prompt
to analyze the data and
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provide a summary of our copied text,
so let's paste it and see what happens.
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ChatGPT gives us an error that
the message I have submitted is too long.
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Please reload the conversation and submit
something shorter just as I expected.
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Next, I'll try the same
prompt in Google Bard.
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First, we'll paste it into
the prompt input form, but
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if you look at the Send icon,
it is grayed out as it isn't enabled.
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Bard won't take the prompt from us
until we make it shorter, all right?
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Let's try Bing AI with the conversation
style set to creative.
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Okay, when I tried to paste the prompt
it gets cut off where it hits
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the 4000-character limit,
which is what I figured would happen.
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So let's head back to Claude and I'll
paste the prompt to see how it handles it.
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For starters, it immediately processes
are long text prompt as a txt file.
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It says the file is right
under 150 kilobytes.
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I'll click on the Send button and
let's see what we get from Claude.
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Okay, as you can see, analyzing such a
large piece of data can take Claude a bit
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longer than the average prompt,
but that's completely normal.
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It just needs time to go over all
the texts that I've submitted and
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to generate its response, but let's skip
ahead, so you don't have to wait around.
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Okay, Claude has reviewed our document and
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is ready to provide a summary of
key insights from the white paper.
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It says the paper outlines a strategy for
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applying ChatGPT to robotics tasks
by creating a high-level function
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library that ChatGPT can use to
parse user intent and generate code.
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Claude also states several prompt
engineering principles are proposed,
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like using descriptive API names,
providing task details,
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constraints, and
biasing the answer structure.
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Claude also provided the following
insights from the paper.
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Limitations include the need for human
oversight on code quality safety before
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robot deployment, and difficulties
with complex scene understanding for
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closed loop dialogue control.
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The paper introduces prompt craft and
open platform for
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collaboratively developing and
testing prompting strategies for robotics.
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To summarize, Claude says overall,
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the work demonstrates ChatGPT's
potential as an intuitive tool for
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robotics, guided by principles of
API design and prompt engineering.
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More research is needed to
expand its reasoning and
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closed-loop control abilities.
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This is truly impressive, as it can save
many users thousands of hours from having
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to read long documents and
study materials.
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Of course, as always, you would want to
double-check the results provided, okay?
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For this last example, I wanna show off
a use case that is still summarizing text.
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But it's for a use case that we all
encounter in our daily lives, and
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that's for contracts or
terms of service agreements, et cetera.
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You know, those large multi-page documents
that don't always use plain language that
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we're expected to read and sign.
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Well, let's try using ChatGPT to read and
summarize one for us, so
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we can know what we're signing up for.
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In this example, I'll use Apple's most
recent Apple Care Terms and Conditions
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contract, which is from September
2023 at the time of this recording.
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As you can see, we have the whole
plan here, It's 15 pages.
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I'll use my keyboard shortcut Command-A to
highlight all of the text in the document.
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Then I'll right-click and
select Copy to copy it all,
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then I'll head back to Claude and
paste it in.
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After that, I'll use my prompt, which for
this demo will be, please provide
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a summary of this contract using simple
language that a 5th grader can understand.
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Also, list the advantages and
disadvantages in detail.
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I'll hit Enter and let's see what
Claude is able to come up with.
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Okay, Claude provided a simplified summary
of the AppleCare contract, it starts by
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saying this is an optional-extended
warranty for Apple devices.
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It extends your warranty beyond the
standard one year it covers defects and
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accidental damage and
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there is a service fee you have to pay
each time you make a claim, and more.
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It also mentions terms can change at any
time if Apple provides written notice and
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that Apple can cancel the contract for
reasons such as non-payment, fraud, or
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lack of service parts.
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The advantages of this program
include an expanded warranty duration,
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it covers accidental damage, and
technical support is included.
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However, cloud also provided some of
the disadvantages, such as additional
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cost service fees for claims,
you can't transfer your Apple Care Plan.
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Apple can change terms and a limited
refund for cancelling after 30 days.
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With Claude on your side, you have
the opportunity to scrutinize every
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contract or terms of service agreement
in detail before giving your consent.
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This is an excellent habit to make
certain that the terms are equitable, and
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that you comprehend what
you're agreeing to.
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However, it's crucial to always
double-check the findings from Claude or
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any other assistant you may use, but
that's it for our introduction to Claude.
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Please join us in the next stage where
we'll compare ChatGPT, Google Bard,
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Bing AI, and Claude AI,
I'll see you there.
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