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JoshuaDavid 4 days ago

... I am pretty sure that the name "Anthropic" is as in "principle" not as in "pertaining to human beings".

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kaashif 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

The anthropic principle is named as such because it is "pertaining to human beings".

This is like saying McDonald's is named after the McDonald's happy meal rather than the McDonald brothers.

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lacy_tinpot a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Just look at their aesthetic/branding, or the way they've trained their models. Very Anthrop-ic.

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GlitchInstitute 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

anthropic is derived from the Greek word anthropos (human)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle

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yunohn 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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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JoshuaDavid 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

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.

	▲	simonw 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		They tried to fire Sam Altman and left to form their own company when that didn't work. https://simonwillison.net/2023/Nov/22/before-altmans-ouster-...

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rcarmo 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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