What is Plenary?
Plenary is an artificial intelligence assistant created by Anthropic, a company founded in 2021 focused on building beneficial AI. It utilizes a technique called constitutional AI to ensure the assistant is helpful, harmless, and honest.
Plenary is designed to be able to have natural conversations and be generally useful to human users. Its conversational abilities allow it to understand natural language, answer questions on a wide variety of topics, and perform simple tasks through dialogue. However, Plenary has limitations on what it can do - it avoids making impactful real-world changes or disclosing private information.
Some key features and abilities of Plenary include:
- Understanding natural language and continuing conversations
- Answering factual questions
- Making recommendations and giving opinions when asked
- Admitting when it doesn't know something or makes a mistake
- Refusing inappropriate requests and clarifying why
- Performing basic online searches and calculations
Plenary is free to use and accessible through a website interface. It represents an advancement in safe AI that respects human values while still being helpful.
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