Anthropic Tools for Seamless Automation - 3 Use Cases Explained



AI Summary

  • Introduction to anthropic tools/function calling
    • Useful for beginners or first-time viewers
    • Explains how to overcome the lack of real-time data in AI responses
  • Tool Calling in Anthropic
    • Allows AI to interact with internal tools for real-time data
    • Example: Fetching stock prices or order details from internal systems
  • Use Cases Demonstrated
    • Get stock price agent
    • Customer service agent
    • Structured JSON output from unstructured data
    • Entity identification
    • Sentiment analysis
    • Text classification
  • Anthropic Tools Now in Beta
    • Available in Anthropic Messages API
    • Enables interaction with external tools (e.g., billing systems, CRMs)
  • Creating and Using Tools
    • Define a tool and its capabilities to the language model
    • Ask a question to trigger tool calling
    • Run the tool and return the output for a final response
  • Example: Get Stock Price Tool
    • Uses Yahoo Finance to fetch current stock prices
    • Tool definition includes input (ticker symbol) and output (stock price)
    • Process involves asking the AI, parsing the response, running the tool, and sending back the result
  • Integrating with User Interface
    • Use Gradio for creating a UI to interact with the tool
    • Example UI allows users to ask for stock prices of companies like Apple or Tesla
  • Customer Service Agent Use Case
    • Integrates with databases for customer and order details
    • AI fetches details based on customer queries using defined tools
  • Structured JSON Output from Unstructured Data
    • Uses Beautiful Soup to parse web content
    • Defines expected schema for the AI to structure the output
  • Entity Extraction, Sentiment Analysis, and Text Classification
    • Defines required fields and categories for the AI to analyze text
    • AI performs analysis based on provided text and schema
  • Conclusion
    • Demonstrates the power of integrating custom tools with AI
    • Encourages viewers to subscribe for more content on AI and tool integration

For further details on each use case, refer to the specific sections in the outline.