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New Anthropic research: Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model. All LLMs sometimes act like they have emotions. But why? We found internal representations of emotion concepts that can drive Claude’s behavior, sometimes in surprising ways.

Geoffrey Hinton says AI may already be developing emotions. “In terms of cognitive behavior, it could be just like us when it comes to emotions.” He collapses the line between real and simulated -- by defining feeling as learned behavior. If that's true, AI may already qualify as emotional.