Comment by ChosenEnd

Comment by ChosenEnd 16 hours ago

6 replies

>Anthropic genuinely cares

I believe Anthropic may have functional emotions in some sense. Not necessarily identical to human emotions, but analogous processes

andybak 14 minutes ago

If you accept that "qualia" is a coherent concept" then surely emotions require qualia. And I'm really not buying the idea that current gen AI is capable of subjective experience in anything like the sense people usually mean.

FeepingCreature 13 hours ago

It would not at all surprise me if corporations could have emotional states.

  • skeeter2020 12 hours ago

    A huge part of the above-water corporate iceberg is the people and your interactions with them, so the company does take on a proxy "emotional signature" based on with whom you interact and the context of the situation. I don't see how a computer program trained on the human knowledge corpus does anything more than parrot observed behaviours without the backing biological systems. Mirroring pretty much the opposite of genuine emotion.

    • euroderf 4 hours ago

      Claude might have an emotional signature that is all cuddly touchy-feely in an abstract, intangible, disembodied way. But.. Anthropic - as a corporation - will still have that deep, dark, insatiable desire to rape your wallet.

    • ACCount37 5 hours ago

      What's so special about those "backing biological systems"?