{"id":476044,"date":"2026-03-14T23:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/476044\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T23:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:54:13","slug":"claude-charts-a-new-course-with-charts-of-course-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/476044\/","title":{"rendered":"Claude charts a new course with charts, of course \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing is believing, or so it was said up until AI required questioning everything. But even when braced to resist the slop roulette of online interaction, pictures are worth a thousand tokens.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/claude.ai\/\">Claude<\/a> AI model has been trained to do what may be more valuable than mere depiction: It can now generate not just static charts but dynamic visualizations, complete with sliders, buttons, and assorted animation control gewgaws.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic showed off an early version of this capability last fall under the label <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dGiqrsv530Y\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Imagine with Claude<\/a> and has now rolled it out to customers as a beta service.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Claude can create custom charts, diagrams and other visualizations in-line in its responses \u2013 and then tweak and modify its creations as the conversation develops,&#8221; the company explains in a <a href=\"https:\/\/claude.com\/blog\/claude-builds-visuals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is not artist style pilfering along the lines of Google&#8217;s Nano Banana or Midjourney. Rather its on-the-fly generation of JavaScript code using visualization library <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chartjs.org\/docs\/latest\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chart.js<\/a>, HTML, CSS, and whatnot. These are on-demand mini-apps, and they&#8217;re intended to be temporary rather than persistent tools like <a href=\"https:\/\/claude.ai\/catalog\/artifacts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Claude Artifacts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As an example, Antropic suggests you can ask Claude to show you how compound interest works. And after some churning of bits, the company&#8217;s AI service will emit an interactive chart with sliders that illustrates said financial miracle.<\/p>\n<p>In the before-times, one might have had to scour the web for such a tool and visit various ad-strewn spamscapes before finding a workable option.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More interestingly, these just-in-time charting tools can evolve with conversations \u2013 after testing out the suggested &#8220;Show me how compound interest works&#8221; prompt, The Register requested the addition of an inflation slider. And lo, it was done, all for the very low cost of a few thousand tokens and some undisclosed amount of electricity and water.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2026\/03\/13\/claude_chart.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/claude_chart.jpg\" alt=\"Claude's Periodic Table of Idiots\" title=\"Claude's Periodic Table of Idiots\" height=\"503\" width=\"648\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text_center\">Claude&#8217;s Periodic Table of Idiots &#8211; Click to enlarge<\/p>\n<p>Just for fun, we asked Claude, &#8220;Show me an interactive table of elements but instead of elements, depict idiots.&#8221; To our surprise, Claude, so often playing the role of the responsible one in a cast of more mercenary models, complied with gusto.<\/p>\n<p>The chart includes 36 elements detailed in popup windows, starting with 1 Ob, Obviousman.<\/p>\n<p>The entry reads, &#8220;States the blindingly obvious with the confidence of a Nobel laureate. Will inform you it is raining while you are both standing in the rain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As a rehash of things people have complained about on the internet, wrapped in interactive graphic packaging, it&#8217;s not bad.<\/p>\n<p>According to Anthropic, interactive chart generation is now on by default. \u00ae<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seeing is believing, or so it was said up until AI required questioning everything. 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