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yunohnlast Saturday at 8:57 AM2 repliesview on HN

Really? Anthropic is /the/ AI company known for anthropomorphizing their models, giving them ethics and “souls”, considering their existential crises, etc.


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JoshuaDavidlast Saturday at 10:12 AM

Anthropic was founded by a group of 7 former OpenAI employees who left over differences in opinions about AI Safety. I do not see any public documentation that the specific difference in opinion was that that group thought that OpenAI was too focused on scaling and that there needed to be a purely safety-focused org that still scaled, though that is my impression based on conversations I've had.

But regardless anthropic reasoning was extremely in the intellectual water supply of the Anthropic founders, and they explicitly were not aiming at producing a human-like model.

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rcarmolast Saturday at 7:21 PM

“you are totally right!” does feel like a very human behavior in some respects…