Edouard Machery

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History and Philosophy of Science, Cognitive Science,Experimental Philosophy, distinguished Prof at Pitt, Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science

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Edouard Machery reposted
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Interesting new work from Jack Lindsay Nicholas Sofroniew et al from the mech interp group at Anthropic. Quick take: these are abstract representations which do have similarities to human brain features. 1/2 #neuroscience #neuroai 🧪 transformer-circuits...

Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models transformer-circuits.pub
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  • Anthropic's interpretability team introduces the Jacobian lens, which isolates internal vectors that encode a token the model could verbalize next.
  • The reported 'J-space' workspace accounts for no more than roughly 10% of activation variance and appears only in the middle block of the network.
  • Training Claude to articulate ethical principles when interrupted reportedly improved behavior in uninterrupted contexts, with no direct training on the behavior itself.
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Edouard Machery reposted
Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social

The next Philosophy Compass article with Raphaël Millière on language models is out now, open access. We review basic philosophical questions about language models and research on them thus far. compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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apparently the chancellor of the university of pittsburgh has joined the board of life sciences AI infrastructure company Ambitious Bio. Surely there is no conflict of interest for a huge medical university like mine.... pathetic

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It strikes me that the AI agents are more like viruses hacking electronic systems than like smart organisms. Just like viruses hack cells, AI agents hack things similar in some way to themselves.

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Having just talked to a United airlines agent who confidently asserted demonstrably false things I am glad to report that it is not only LLMs who hallucinate.

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Why do I make so many typos? So they you know it’s not AI generated.

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