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Established AI research Resource 6d ago
⚡ 1465 h early
Distill.pub circuits neural network introduction

Zoom In: An Introduction to Circuits

3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“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...”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“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…”

4 experts discussed this · 37 posts
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…
Olivia Guest: 💯
jake: lyInG tHeFT mAchIne thAt's rUInInG peOple'S wAtER
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Established Models & releases Research 6d ago
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Anthropic LLM biology interpretability paper

On the Biology of a Large Language Model

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How the network is reacting 2 experts are emphasizing opportunity & adoption.
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Opportunity & adoption

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New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.

“i think pre-planning rhymes is the best example of this behavior, where the model preactivates features associated with words which complete the rhyme and "stores" them as annotations on the newline token. transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribu...”

6 experts discussed this · 124 posts
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: What "experts" are you talking about? Experts across the AI field have been freaking out about this. As far as I can tell, your "expert" seems to be Eryk Salvaggio, an artist pursuing a degree in d…
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: Wow, you really rebutted what I said there. You have certainly demonstrated that you are a person who should be taken seriously, about literally anything.
Doll: The same people who insist these machines are parrots that cant do the things they can demonstratably do??? Those scientists???
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Established AI field signal Resource 3d ago
⚡ 2039 h early
Modelith domain model tooling launch

Modelith - Domain Model Tooling | Modelith

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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“Just released v0.5.0 of modelith.sh, my domain modeling toolkit. Check it out. github.com/stacklok/mod... Brings in model importing, vendoring and subTypes. Let me know what you think!”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
h.olysh.it: This is why I built modelith.sh
Grady Booch: Woohoo!!!!
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Established AI field signal Development 5d ago
⚡ 41 h early
Palantir AI Pentagon strike deaths

Pentagon Investigators Say Overreliance on Palantir AI Tech Contributed to U.S. Strike That Killed 123 Iranian Children

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“Overreliance on Palantir AI Tech Contributed to U.S. Strike That Killed 123 Iranian Children --> gizmodo.com/pentagon-inv... Bloomberg: Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School --> archive.ph/wr8t9”

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6 experts · 38 posts · 2d ago
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Opportunity & adoption · 1
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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5 experts · 7 posts · 3d ago
Shared emphasis Questions & unknowns · 2
Luke Stark: Big names in AI and Silicon Valley tech announced yesterday that they're launching a boarding academy for 16 to 22 year olds. (Would you trust the people in this scene with keeping an eye on minors…
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: There's an old axiom that every billionaire ends up, sooner or later, with some harebrained scheme to reinvent education.
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