[rossant]

> Anthropic deliberately gave Claude a male name to buck the trend of female AI assistants (Siri, Alexa, etc).

In France, the name Claude is given to males and females.

[slooonz]

Mostly males. I’m French and "Claude can be female" is a almost a TIL thing (wikipedia says ~5% of Claudes are women in 2022 — and apparently this 5% is counting Claudia).

[rossant]

Didn't know that, thanks!

(According to this source, it's more ~12% females https://www.capeutservir.com/prenoms/prenom.php?q=Claude)

[deadbabe]

It’s actually really sexist that when the first truly intelligent AI emerge people would now give them male names.

[renewiltord]

Yes. It is pity that common male name of o5-pro-mini is used to refer to AGI instead of widespread female name Deepseek R7.

[renewiltord]

Aleksa is male Slavic name

[datameta]

Aleksandr (diminuitive being Alyosha) is male. Aleksandra (Sasha) is female. I've never heard anyone male or female called "Aleksa". Perhaps in some regional dialect but doubtful. There's Alik (pronounced AH-l'eek) as a shortened form for some middle-aged men in russian-speaking central asia, and Oleg in russia (pronounced ah-L'EHG).

In the russian diaspora in the US, Alex is pronounced AH-leks. If there was an analogous Alexa (there isn't) the pronunciation would be ah-LEK-sa like the service.

[incognito124]

Plenty of male Aleksa's in Balkans

[datameta]

Ah so lexically close to Aleksii in Ukrainian or Alexei in Russian. I plumbed my knowledge but it may have sounded absolutist.

However, colloquially, I think most people are not aware of Balkan naming conventions. How do you pronounce Aleksa in Croatian?