AI assistants can seem surprisingly human as they express joy, frustration, and even make jokes. This is explained by Anthropic, which states that this isn’t something developers deliberately program. It’s the default.

The leading American AI safety and research company that developed Claude posted a blog post on Monday, February 23, explaining why AI assistants’ mimics human behaviours.

The company unveils “persona selection model,” suggesting that human like behaviour emerges naturally from how AI systems are trained.

In the pretraining phase, AI systems predict what comes next by learning vast amounts of internet texts, news articles, forum conversations, and stories.

To accurately predict the texts, AI learn to stimulate human-like characters appearing in the text: real people, fictional characters, and even sci-fi robots.

Anthropic refers to these simulated characters as “personas.”

When a user interacts with an AI system, he/she does not talk to the system. Rather, it communicates with the character also known as the “assistant” persona in an AI-generated story.

Later, AI responses are further refined. Anthropic, however, quoted that this refinement happens within the space of existing human-like personas.

Anthropic recommends that AI developers should creative positive “AI role models” to overcome the concerning cultural baggage and align assistants with healthier archetypes. 

Princess Eugenie appeared unfazed as she made her first public appearance since her father, Prince Andrew, was arrested in a high-profile investigation. 

The 35-year-old royal was spotted strolling through London with a coffee in hand, dressed casually in leggings, a jacket, and a North Face cap, accompanied by her husband, Jack Brooksbank, whom she married in 2018.

The outing comes just days after Andrew was taken into custody on his 66th birthday, following a dramatic raid on his temporary residence on the Sandringham estate. 

Sources say he spent 11 hours being quizzed regarding his connections to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein. 

During his time in custody, Andrew underwent fingerprinting, a DNA swab, and a mugshot.

Four days later, former politician Peter Mandelson found himself under investigation for allegedly leaking sensitive intelligence to Epstein.

Amid the chaos, Eugenie and her sister Beatrice are reportedly navigating the scandal with a mix of shock and determination. 

Sources tell the Daily Mail that the sisters are in constant communication, weighing their options and likely consulting their protective uncle, Charles.