[andrethegiant]

I am so sick of these anthropomorphized names that have nothing to do with anything that we’re all supposed to remember now. Why are we giving products first names? The worst offender is probably Amazon Rufus. It’s all so dumb and I hate it. At least attempt to be clever and name it something that relates to the product itself. Even Google Wave, despite its shortcomings, made sense as a product name.

[neuronexmachina]

I assumed the Jules name was at least partially inspired by Jenkins.

[leoh]

I always thought of the character from Euphoria

[gjvc]

Claude is named after Claude Shannon. And Google Wave was the future we needed, even if we did not deserve it.

[lupusreal]

My friend, letting yourself be bothered by this is just pissing into the wind. Humans have been anthropomorphizing machines and other objects for as long as we've been making them, it's a fundamental aspect of human nature. Thousands upon thousands of ships and trains given human names. Tanks, guns, cars, anything that is at least moderately complex or that people find themselves relying on and forming relationships with. AIs have been getting human names since at least 1966 with Eliza, probably earlier, and certainly with many earlier examples in fiction.

There's no stopping it. Just roll with it.