Claude.ai is an AI assistant developed by the AI research company Anthropic. It is designed to be helpful, harmless, and honest in conversations with humans.
Specifically, Claude is an AI chatbot that can:
- Have conversations with users to understand tasks or requests, ask clarifying questions, and provide responses or complete tasks to the best of its abilities
- Perform research online and summarize information on topics it is queried about
- Answer questions factually to the best of its capabilities
- Translate languages it has been trained on
- Produce sample text like generating essays, summarizing articles, or completing simple creative writing tasks at the request of a user
- Do basic-to-moderate math calculations and logic based on its mathematical knowledge
- Admit when it does not know something or when it might be mistaken instead of guessing or speculating
- Refuse requests that appear unethical, dangerous or illegal
Key attributes of Claude are its natural language processing abilities for nuanced conversations, its research skills to provide useful information, and its safety-focused AI design to avoid harmful, deceptive or inappropriate behaviors when interacting with people.