I used Anthropic's Claude to pick Oscar winners at a party. It made odd mistakes, but still beat everyone else.

Alistair Barr (right) winning the Oscar ballot at a friend's party

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I tried something different at my friends' annual Oscars party this year: I outsourced my ballot to Anthropic's Claude.

It beat around the bush at first, so I asked it to just give me the winners. Claude obliged, delivering confident picks across nearly every category.