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Distill.pub circuits neural network introduction

Zoom In: An Introduction to Circuits

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · jake
“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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“NNs in general build up, from the base level, like this: 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…”

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 AI field signal Signal 16d ago

Datasets – Hugging Face

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦
“"his vision for open information access" huggingface.co/datasets Your argument is equivalent that because Microsoft existed, he should have been opposed to computers. Swartz's whole f'ing thing was about liberating information from walled gardens for the ge…” evidence ↗
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“"his vision for open information access" huggingface.co/datasets Your argument is equivalent that because Microsoft existed, he should have been opposed to computers. Swartz's whole f'ing thing was about liberating information from walled gardens for the ge…”

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Chris Paxton: I just don't understand how people can eulogize Swartz and simultaneously conclude that the world needs *more* intellectual property enforcement
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: bsky.app/profile/dann...
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: It's not selective enforcement, it's literally the law.
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Established AI field signal Signal 15d ago

Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦
“They haven't? www.anthropic.com/research/end...” evidence ↗
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“They haven't? www.anthropic.com/research/end...”

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Eugene Vinitsky: if you do so, you could point out that Anthropic has not implemented a tool that lets Claude refuse to do any labor
Eugene Vinitsky: If you’re going to dunk on something at least engage with the stronger version of the argument that is more likely to be actually held
Eugene Vinitsky: Most AI consciousness people do not believe current models are conscious but believe that it will be hard to tell when the transition happens and so it is worth putting in place appropriate mitigat…
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Established AI field signal Resource 20d ago
Jev non-frontier AI model resource

Jev: Not Frontier, But Still Worth Your Attention

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦
“Well, sooner or later you have to eventually release. I've been working on a project studying Jev for a couple weeks now, probing it from all angles on provenance, benchmarks, biases, and more. jevresearch.github.io/Jev-Research/ Not frontier. Unlikely a pr…” evidence ↗
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“Well, sooner or later you have to eventually release. I've been working on a project studying Jev for a couple weeks now, probing it from all angles on provenance, benchmarks, biases, and more. jevresearch.github.io/Jev-Research/ Not frontier. Unlikely a pr…”

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Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: Well, sooner or later you have to eventually release. I've been working on a project studying Jev for a couple weeks now, probing it from all angles on provenance, benchmarks, biases, and more. jev…
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: Tagging the Jev-curious: @angelamczhou.bsky.social @hailey.at @timkellogg.me @simonwillison.net @brian.gawalt.com @aarontay.bsky.social @nic221.bsky.social @iamstan.dev @funferall.bsky.social @crai…
Tim Kellogg: i feel like 21.9% on HLE is pretty damn good for no reasoning
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9 experts · 63 posts · 13d ago
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“This view of human tasks is quite narrow. One of my tasks this week was helping my dad understand his cancer treatment. When I saved time finding the right evidence for his particular protocol rath…” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Markets & investment · 4 Research & technical analysis · 1
Cat Hicks: "why would I ever need a task to be done faster" come on, guys. Because we're dying. Because we are literally all dying all the time. Because we're running out of time. The fact that it's often har…
Cat Hicks: because tasks gate other tasks. Because measuring the hours saved by washing machines is a relatively useful index for quality of life improvement. Because the time it takes for you to get from the…
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7 experts · 83 posts · 8d ago
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“LLMs are not databases. They do not contain their training data.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 2 Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: LLMs are not databases. They do not contain their training data.
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: Base rate fallacy.
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4 experts · 21 posts · 1d ago
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“Lots of new folks trying to write papers so it’s important to know: if there’s a mistake in the paper, the responsibility falls on you. You cannot offload it to the AI assistant.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Eugene Vinitsky: It takes so long to write a paper because we are crazy about not making mistakes and checking as many edge cases as we can. This stressful responsibility is, I suppose, not obvious. so, if you’re n…
Eugene Vinitsky: Lots of new folks trying to write papers so it’s important to know: if there’s a mistake in the paper, the responsibility falls on you. You cannot offload it to the AI assistant.
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4 experts · 44 posts · 9d ago
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“It's an important question. If we're going to evaluate evidence, we need to know how It's actually really funny you read it as bait It's a serious and important question. As a statement, I don't un…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Questions & unknowns · 2 Concern & critique · 1
Colin: > the problem is that the track record of the people saying "shut up, nerd, we already know this" is, historically, pretttttttty bad What are you referring to exactly?
Colin: What’s an example of a person who said something amounting to “shut up nerd we already know this” regarding these things?
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2 experts · 5 posts · 10d ago
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“💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯 This is so spot on. The Markov-ness just oozes through her papers” evidence ↗
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: "Hello. I am an expert on AI systems. I think that if I were to actually use one, it's equivalent to doing heroin, so NO THANK YOU. Now please listen to my totally informed opinion about LLMs." "Al…
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