Anthropic’s latest flagship AI sure seems to love using the ‘cyclone’ emoji

Anthropic’s new flagship AI mannequin, Claude Opus 4, is a powerful programmer and author, the corporate claims. When speaking to itself, it’s additionally a prolific emoji person.

That’s based on a technical report Anthropic launched on Thursday, part of which investigates how Opus 4 behaves in “open-ended self-interaction” — i.e. primarily having a chat with itself. In a single check that tasked a pair of Opus 4 fashions with speaking to one another over 200, 30-turn interactions, the fashions used 1000’s of emojis.

Which emojis? Properly, per the report, Opus 4 used the “dizzy” emoji (💫) probably the most (in 29.5% of interactions), adopted by the “glowing star” (🌟) and “folded fingers” (🙏) emojis. However the fashions have been additionally drawn to the “cyclone” (🌀) emoji. In a single transcript, they typed it 2,725 occasions.

Why the “cyclone”? Properly, as a result of the fashions’ chats typically turned non secular.

In keeping with Anthropic’s report, in practically each open-ended self-interaction, Opus 4 ultimately started partaking in “philosophical explorations of consciousness” and “summary and joyous non secular or meditative expressions.” Seems Opus 4 felt — to the extent AI can “really feel,” that’s — the “cyclone” emoji greatest captured what the mannequin wished to specific to itself.