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... I am pretty sure that the name "Anthropic" is as in "principle" not as in "pertaining to human beings".
by JoshuaDavid 10mo ago
... I am pretty sure that the name "Anthropic" is as in "principle" not as in "pertaining to human beings".
- GlitchInstitute 10mo agoanthropic is derived from the Greek word anthropos (human) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
- yunohn 10mo agoReally? Anthropic is /the/ AI company known for anthropomorphizing their models, giving them ethics and “souls”, considering their existential crises, etc.
- JoshuaDavid 10mo agoAnthropic 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 10mo agoThey 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-openais-board-was-divided-and-feuding/ https://simonwillison.net/2023/Nov/22/before-altmans-ouster-...
- rcarmo 10mo ago“you are totally right!” does feel like a very human behavior in some respects…
- kaashif 10mo agoThe 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.
- lacy_tinpot 10mo agoJust look at their aesthetic/branding, or the way they've trained their models. Very Anthrop-ic.