Our “Upstream” series continues to help Hub members stay at the forefront of the generative AI wave.
This week, Ian Hansel, our resident data scientist and Director at Verge Labs, gave a compelling talk and demo of Claude Artifacts - a powerful new user experience feature of the Claude chatbot from Anthropic.
Ian took us through a comparison of Claude vs ChatGPT, making the point that competition in the LLM space is a huge win for developers and end users, with model quality, speed, affordability and capability all improving rapidly.
He then explained how Claude Artifacts pushes beyond the more basic ChatGPT Code Interpreter, showing us how to use it for creating hosted and shareable mini-apps, like a QR code generator, interactive data dashboards, visualisations, and flow charts.
One of the coolest features is the ability to remix existing artifacts that have been crated by others. It’s a fantastic tool for accelerating idea exploration and prototyping, especially when combined with Claude’s ability to make sense of large documents and other uploaded files.
A key takeaway was the importance of building a diverse toolkit and understanding which LLM is best suited to a given task. By knowing the strengths and limitations of the various platforms and tools available, and building our prompting skills, we can stay “upstream” and make AI work for us.
Thanks to Ian for sharing his insights and expertise.
