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> I don't think anyone believes that a computer program is literally their companion Quoth the makers of Claude: > AI systems are no longer just specialized r
by globnomulous 1y ago
> I don't think anyone believes that a computer program is literally their companion
Quoth the makers of Claude:
> AI systems are no longer just specialized research tools: they’re everyday academic companions.
> https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-education-report-how-university-students-use-claude https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-education-report-ho...
To call Anthropic's opener brazen, obnoxious, or euphemistic would be an understatement. I hope it ages like milk, as it deserves, and so embarrasses the company that it eventually requires a corrective foreword or retraction.
- illiac786 1y agoI don’t think there’s a contradiction. Anthropic writes this because they want people to believe this, the author argues though that no one believes it. I believe there’s a small minority of people that truly believes AI is a friend, but I would say it’s a psychological pathology. I don’t bother trying to guess what large companies really think: a/ they’re made of so many different stakeholders I don’t think it’s possible. And b/ I know money is the most important thing if they are large enough and have lots of anonymous investors, I don’t need to know anything else.
- ge96 1y ago> companion replica ai