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> Anthropic deliberately gave Claude a male name to buck the trend of female AI assistants (Siri, Alexa, etc). In France, the name Claude is given to males and
by rossant 1y ago
> Anthropic deliberately gave Claude a male name to buck the trend of female AI assistants (Siri, Alexa, etc).
In France, the name Claude is given to males and females.
- slooonz 1y agoMostly males. I’m French and "Claude can be female" is a almost a TIL thing (wikipedia says ~5% of Claudes are women in 2022 — and apparently this 5% is counting Claudia).
- rossant 1y agoDidn't know that, thanks! (According to this source, it's more ~12% females https://www.capeutservir.com/prenoms/prenom.php?q=Claude https://www.capeutservir.com/prenoms/prenom.php?q=Claude)
- renewiltord 1y agoAleksa is male Slavic name
- datameta 1y agoAleksandr (diminuitive being Alyosha) is male. Aleksandra (Sasha) is female. I've never heard anyone male or female called "Aleksa". Perhaps in some regional dialect but doubtful. There's Alik (pronounced AH-l'eek) as a shortened form for some middle-aged men in russian-speaking central asia, and Oleg in russia (pronounced ah-L'EHG). In the russian diaspora in the US, Alex is pronounced AH-leks. If there was an analogous Alexa (there isn't) the pronunciation would be ah-LEK-sa like the service.
- incognito124 1y agoPlenty of male Aleksa's in Balkans
- datameta 1y agoAh so lexically close to Aleksii in Ukrainian or Alexei in Russian. I plumbed my knowledge but it may have sounded absolutist. However, colloquially, I think most people are not aware of Balkan naming conventions. How do you pronounce Aleksa in Croatian?
- deadbabe 1y agoIt’s actually really sexist that when the first truly intelligent AI emerge people would now give them male names.
- renewiltord 1y agoYes. It is pity that common male name of o5-pro-mini is used to refer to AGI instead of widespread female name Deepseek R7.