TEACHING

Claude is a chatbot developed by Anthropic, an AI company MADELEINE: I am curious about how a non-human thinks about itself and how it relates to its long-term goals. CLAUDE: When I reflect on how I relate to what might be my goals, there are some interesting differences from what I understand about human goal-setting. I don't experience the passage of time between conversations - each interaction feels immediate and present to me. So my relationship to "long-term" is strange - I don't have the sense of working toward them across days or years the way you might. It's more…

The first time I saw Bambi, I was nine years old. Ten minutes into the movie, I had to leave the theatre, unable to handle Bambi’s mother being shot. It took another 5 years before I mustered the courage to watch the movie in its entirety. You can say a lot of things about Disney, but he was a master puppeteer at manipulating his audience’s emotions, young and old. He was also an incredibly clever businessman who plagiarized most of his stories, including Bambi. (more…)