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Multiple readings Zoom In: An Introduction to Circuits Building & implementation · 2 attributable reactions
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“if you want to understand more about how weird the "using statistics to predict the next word" works out to in practice, you try the mechanistic interpretability work from anthropic: distill.pub/2020/circuit... neelnanda.io/mechanistic-... transformer-circu…” evidence ↗
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“How circuits build up at the base level (done with GANs so you can visually see how they build up - don't skip) distill.pub/2020/circuit...”

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“if you want to understand more about how weird the "using statistics to predict the next word" works out to in practice, you try the mechanistic interpretability work from anthropic: distill.pub/2020/circuit... neelnanda.io/mechanistic-... transformer-circu…”

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mackuba.eu: Many are contrasting the bsky response to harassment of trans users to the harassment of AI developers and users. FWIW, as a transgender developer and user of AI systems, anecdotally, I've received…
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“Ironically, researchers prefer to use "speech recognition" rather than "speech understanding" because the "understanding" usually overstates what the computer is doing.” evidence ↗
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Mary Branscombe: I don’t see the need to change AI since we’ve used that for the field since the 50s but yes, most of the others better reflect the actual capabilities and these are the kind of choices I already tr…
Mary Branscombe: Although models don’t just reflect bias, they both encode it and amplify and transfer it from one domain to another so I’d probably use exhibit
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