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Shared emphasis Neural Networks Are Already Clean Research & technical analysis · 2 attributable reactions
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Established AI research Analysis 5d ago
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neural networks already clean essay

Neural Networks Are Already Clean

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Maria Antoniak Ted Underwood Will Oremus Ramon Astudillo Suresh Venkatasubramanian Tim Kellogg Shahab Bakhtiari Ryan Moulton +3
How the network is reacting 2 experts are emphasizing research & technical analysis.
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Research & technical analysis

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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“Quite a claim in this new work from Goodfire. Among many points, they argue that some of the main examples of superposition and polysemanticity in large models were misunderstood. This definitely deserves some deep, rigorous peer review. already-clean.goodf…”

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Ryan Moulton: Haven't read this yet, but I'm posting it because it seems important and I want to. already-clean.goodfire.com
Ryan Moulton: Claim, as they say.
Ryan Moulton: @norvid-studies.bsky.social some sparkling fresh juicy claims for you.
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Established Culture, work & education Research 16d ago
human machine vision gap NeurIPS paper

Partial success in closing the gap between human and machine vision

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Shahab Bakhtiari

“I think the evidence is growing and gaps are closing; this is from a few years ago: proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/..., and things've been improving since then. Of course, there are skeptics ...”

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Established AI research Research 18d ago
seq-JEPA world models NeurIPS paper

seq-JEPA: Autoregressive Predictive Learning of Invariant-Equivariant World Models

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Shahab Bakhtiari

“I’m thinking even beyond image labeling—more in the realm of recent self-supervised learning methods (e.g., what we proposed here: proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/...). There’s really cool work bringing these concepts into visual neuroscience (we and oth…”

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Established AI field signal Signal 13d ago

Building pro-worker AI | Brookings

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Shahab Bakhtiari

“Acemoglu et al.’s case for "pro-worker AI" makes so much sense. The common counter to #AI job loss is that tech always creates new work. Acemoglu argues that new jobs don't appear spontaneously, especially if we don't actively build AI to complement workers…”

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9 experts · 12 posts · 17d ago
Maria Antoniak Eugene Vinitsky David Pfau joao Thomas Steinke Shahab Bakhtiari David Picard Marc Deisenroth
David Pfau: An academic collaborator just told me his students aren't using LLMs because he can't afford even the low tier monthly subscription for everyone. I'm not sure the folks making $Xm/yr at frontier la…
ae: An academic collaborator just told me his students aren't using LLMs because he can't afford even the low tier monthly subscription for everyone. I'm not sure the folks making $Xm/yr at frontier la…
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