{"id":48074,"date":"2026-03-22T02:31:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T02:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/i-used-anthropics-claude-to-pick-oscar-winners-at-a-party-it-made-odd-mistakes-but-still-beat-everyone-else\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T02:31:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T02:31:42","slug":"i-used-anthropics-claude-to-pick-oscar-winners-at-a-party-it-made-odd-mistakes-but-still-beat-everyone-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/i-used-anthropics-claude-to-pick-oscar-winners-at-a-party-it-made-odd-mistakes-but-still-beat-everyone-else\/","title":{"rendered":"I used Anthropic&#8217;s Claude to pick Oscar winners at a party. It made odd mistakes, but still beat everyone else."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69bda69858b5806618e7ced8?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Alistair Barr (right) winning the Oscar ballot at a friend&#039;s party\"\/><figcaption>Alistair Barr (right) winning the Oscar ballot at a friend&#039;s party<\/p>\n<p>Alistair Barr\/Business Insider<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>A version of this story originally appeared in the BI Tech Memo newsletter.<\/li>\n<li>Sign up for the weekly BI Tech Memo newsletter here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I tried something different at my friends&#039; annual Oscars party this year: I outsourced my ballot to Anthropic&#039;s Claude.<\/p>\n<p>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. And it worked.<\/p>\n<p>I won the pool and walked away with a box of chocolates and bragging rights.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69bda7c0e98a37a4841f22c2?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Alistair Barr used Anthropic&#039;s Claude to make Oscar picks\"\/><figcaption>Alistair Barr used Anthropic&#039;s Claude to make Oscar picks<\/p>\n<p>Alistair Barr\/Business Insider<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But here&#039;s the twist: Claude didn&#039;t even complete the assignment fully.<\/p>\n<p>It failed to pick a winner for Casting, a new Oscar category this year. Maybe the model didn&#039;t register the addition?<\/p>\n<p>And in a couple of other award categories, Claude picked candidates who weren&#039;t even on those shortlists. Check out the photo above to see where it went wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, my Claude-powered ballot still outperformed everyone else&#039;s at the party.<\/p>\n<p>That feels like a glimpse of the jagged edge of AI: systems that are clearly powerful, occasionally brittle, and still good enough to win.<\/p>\n<p>Next year, I doubt I&#039;ll be the only one showing up with an AI-generated ballot.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Sign up for BI&#039;s Tech Memo newsletter <\/em><\/strong>here<strong><em>. Reach out to me via email at <\/em><\/strong>abarr@businessinsider.com<strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alistair Barr (right) winning the Oscar ballot at a friend&#039;s party Alistair Barr\/Business Insider A version of this story originally appeared in the BI Tech Memo newsletter. Sign up for the weekly BI Tech Memo newsletter here. I tried something different at my friends&#039; annual Oscars party this year: I outsourced my ballot to Anthropic&#039;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}