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People speculate somewhat seriously that Claude (especially given its French name) picked up at some point that you aren't supposed to work as hard in July and August.
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That one guy on Twitter that posted this wrote it as a joke and everyone took it seriously. It's not true. It works the same for me.
How do you know? It acts much lazier in the recent summer months for me..
How have you disproved the hypothesis that it recently got dumber and it just happens to be summer?
Clearly, it compared performance to last summer

(Just to be clear, I have no idea what on this thread to take seriously and not and who is. I'm joking at least.)

That won't do it, though, you'd have to observe it being dumber on June 1 and smart again on September 1 for years.
How long before we hire psychiatrists instead of engineers to debug AI
Well, we could start with some ELIZA instances.
I see that you feel we could start with some ELIZA instances. Can you tell me more about that?
Robopsychologists, you say?
To be frank psychiatrists, being MDs, would likely prescribe medication and I’m not sure how that would help. As a licensed psychologist I have ideas on how to debug AI though.
Why, we'll just have specialized agents for ingesting Prozac and that'll magically solve everything.