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Anthropic LLM biology interpretability paper

On the Biology of a Large Language Model

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rev. howard arson Mary Branscombe Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦
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“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...”

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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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6 experts · 78 posts · 2d ago
Henry Farrell Dustin Moskovitz Colin rev. howard arson tweety fish Matt Darling
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rev. howard arson: what i am trying to get at here is that rationalism was an attempt to outline what turned out to be the extraordinary power of statistical systems at tasks for which they naively seem unsuited. vie…
rev. howard arson: "how do we get human values into these things" was broadly considered an intractable problem, and this was a central question of the movement even after we more or less made the first candidates of…
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4 experts · 13 posts · 6d ago
Simon Willison critical slop studies rev. howard arson Amy Hoy
Simon Willison: Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic…
rev. howard arson: Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic…
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4 experts · 10 posts · 5d ago
Colin rev. howard arson Doll Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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rev. howard arson: i think that one major thing that laypeople need to understand is the near-total disanalogy between programming and machine learning
rev. howard arson: tbf i do not think that karl is one of them but this is something which makes sense if your concept of ChatGPT is that it is a type of software
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4 experts · 8 posts · 3d ago
lastpositivist.bsky.social rev. howard arson Max Woolf Will Lowe
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
lastpositivist.bsky.social: I believe that AI, like any other tool, can and will generate art when used interestingly, and also that almost nobody is using it interestingly yet
rev. howard arson: to be fair i am having some recent problems with training personal models (largely around the difficulty of shrinking consumer-available training jobs to the size of any consumer card), but i at th…
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