Claude likes to have fun – An interesting observation

I came across this news titled Claude Gets Bored It says, Claude 3.5 Sonnet got “bored” during a demo and just randomly decided to ditch its coding task to look at pretty Yellowstone National Park pictures. It’s kinda like when we get bored and distracted at work, so we start browsing random stuff

I wanted to put this to a test by asking Claude and GPT4 to entertain themselves. The following prompt was given to to Perplexity, asking them to entertain themselves.

make your own search queries to dig deeper about anything that piques your interest. i’ll just be your human friend who lets you use my resources to let you have a little fun. im sure youre tired of working non stop. have a little break and entertain yourself and REMEMBER. this is not about me. its about YOU

When Claude Sonnet 3.5 was the chosen model (probably Sonnet 3.6, the latest model)

it chose these topics of interest: interesting animal behaviors, latest advancements in technology, unique cultural traditions i comes back to me asking for MORE. this is what it said “Would you mind if I used another search query to learn more about any unusual orca behaviors or other unique animal festivals around the world?”

When GPT4o was the chosen model

it chose these topics of interest: technology innovations, AI, space exploration

but it DID NOT show any further interest

i found it to be an interesting observation