Anthropic's latest flagship AI sure seems to love using the ‘cyclone' emoji
Anthropic's new flagship AI model, Claude Opus 4, is a strong programmer and writer, the company claims. When talking to itself, it's also a prolific emoji user.
That's according to a technical report Anthropic released on Thursday, a part of which investigates how Opus 4 behaves in 'open-ended self-interaction' — i.e. essentially having a chat with itself. In one test that tasked a pair of Opus 4 models with talking to each other over 200, 30-turn interactions, the models used thousands of emojis.
Opus 4 sure does like emojis.
Image Credits:Anthropic
Which emojis? Well, per the report, Opus 4 used the 'dizzy' emoji (💫) the most (in 29.5% of interactions), followed by the 'glowing star' (🌟) and 'folded hands' (🙏) emojis. But the models were also drawn to the 'cyclone' (🌀) emoji. In one transcript, they typed it 2,725 times.
Two Opus 4 models talking to each other.
Image Credits:Anthropic
Why the 'cyclone'? Well, because the models' chats often turned spiritual.
According to Anthropic's report, in nearly every open-ended self-interaction, Opus 4 eventually began engaging in 'philosophical explorations of consciousness' and 'abstract and joyous spiritual or meditative expressions.' Turns out Opus 4 felt — to the extent AI can 'feel,' that is — the 'cyclone' emoji best captured what the model wished to express to itself.
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