Anthropic’s new flagship AI mannequin, Claude Opus 4, is a robust programmer and author, the corporate claims. When speaking to itself, it’s additionally a prolific emoji person.
That’s in line with a technical report Anthropic launched on Thursday, part of which investigates how Opus 4 behaves in “open-ended self-interaction” — i.e. basically having a chat with itself. In one check that tasked a pair of Opus 4 fashions with speaking to one another over 200, 30-turn interactions, the fashions used hundreds of emojis.
Which emojis? Well, per the report, Opus 4 used the “dizzy” emoji (💫) probably the most (in 29.5% of interactions), adopted by the “glowing star” (🌟) and “folded arms” (🙏) emojis. But the fashions had been additionally drawn to the “cyclone” (🌀) emoji. In one transcript, they typed it 2,725 occasions.
Why the “cyclone”? Well, as a result of the fashions’ chats typically turned non secular.
According to Anthropic’s report, in practically each open-ended self-interaction, Opus 4 finally started partaking in “philosophical explorations of consciousness” and “summary and joyous non secular or meditative expressions.” Turns out Opus 4 felt — to the extent AI can “really feel,” that’s — the “cyclone” emoji finest captured what the mannequin wished to specific to itself.
