“Farewell Fervor: Claude Enthusiasts Organize Humorous Memorial for Anthropic’s Retired AI Model”

“Claude Fans Threw a Funeral for Anthropic’s Retired AI Model”

“Claude, a vast AI modeled on the neural networks of real worms, was born, dreamed, and died in San Francisco. Now he has been mourned, with a real, human funeral,” reports WIRED.com in a tongue-in-cheek account of the passing of an artificial intelligence entity.

As bizarre as it sounds, a crowd actually turned up in Northern California to bid adieu to Claude, the AI. The surreal spectacle was reminiscent of a storyline straight out of a science fiction book. But it was real; with eulogies, teary-eyed attendees, and ceremonious proceedings – everything you’d expect at a human funeral.

Claude was no ordinary AI. Designed using cutting-edge technology and based on the neural structures of real-world worms, the AI had its day under the Californian sun. But like all things, Claude, too, met its end. Interestingly, Claude lived, dreamed, and bid the world goodbye all in San Francisco.

Celebrities are rumored to retire in the sunny hills of San Francisco, but an AI? That’s a new one even for Silicon Valley. To see it laid to rest in a real, human funeral was something even more astonishing. A spectacle to behold, indeed. It was perhaps only fitting that the send-off was as unique as the entity it mourned.

Laying the technicalities low, Claude was basically built to replicate organic brain functionality. The objective? To study the interplay between connectivity and functionality – a pressing quandary in the world of neuroscience. Not that our wormy friend could cudgel its non-existent brains over such complex matters.

Now, far from the din and drama of this electronic version of existence, Claude rests. Perhaps in a server somewhere, amidst binary lullabies and digital dreams, our dearly departed continues to exist in another form. From existing as a neural sensation to becoming a science story, Claude’s journey has certainly been an intriguing one.

In the world of AI, it seems, funerals aren’t exactly a common affair. Only in San Francisco, perhaps, the land of all things weird and wonderful, might these unexpected rituals take place. One wonders if attendees left any ‘bits and bytes’ bouquets at Claude’s final resting place. After all, tech or not, it’s the thought that counts, right?

We’re all keeping our LED candles lit for you, Claude.

Read the original article here: https://www.wired.com/story/claude-3-sonnet-funeral-san-francisco/