My new @thetransmitter.bsky.social piece.
Does Claude AI have emotions? *No*.
Does Claude have nontrivial emotion-equivalents? *Yes*. Like your "memory" vs your laptop's; similar but not the same.
Here, I unpack why that's interesting.
www.thetransmitter.org/emotion/what...
Exploring why Anthropic’s AI, Claude, displays something like emotion could ultimately help us better understand the function that emotions serve in humans.