Like anthropomorphism is literally in the company name… i recall reading this book as a teenager.. it does seem apt in the world to come.

https://www.amazon.com/Faces-Clouds-New-Theory-Religion/dp/0...

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oersted 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> anthropomorphism is literally in the company name

No it's not... "anthropos" just means "human" in ancient Greek. "Anthropic" means "relating to humans", as in human oriented AI or AI designed with humans in mind.

"Anthropomorphic" means "human shaped".

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ilovetux 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> "Anthropomorphic" means "human shaped".

In a literal, ancient Greek sense for sure, but in modern English Anthropomorphic would describe the act of attributing human characteristics to non-human entities.

Seems pretty apt for a company that produces one of the more anthropomorphized technologies.

	▲	oersted 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sure of course, but that abstract sense applied to AI is rather new, and has become popular well after the founding of the company. Broadly it has always been used to indicate that something non-human has a human physical shape, such as robots, aliens, animals... Anthropic's intention was to make AI designed for the human common good and designed with the human user experience as the top priority. Just as you would design a city with human inhabitants in mind rather than primarily cars. It turns out that this is best achieved by building AI that imitates human behaviour closely, but that's not what "anthropic" refers to. And acting as if LLMs are sentient people is definitely not a core tenet of the company as you imply.

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badsectoracula 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> "anthropos" just means "human" in ancient Greek

FWIW it means human in modern Greek too :-P

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