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Distill.pub circuits neural network introduction

Zoom In: An Introduction to Circuits

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jake Mary Branscombe Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦

“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…”

“To go one step up from there, I'd recommend this introduction to circuits: distill.pub/2020/circuit...”

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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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jake: lyInG tHeFT mAchIne thAt's rUInInG peOple'S wAtER
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Established AI field signal Analysis 6d ago
Neal Stephenson AI remarks New Zealand

Remarks on AI from NZ

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“I'm often sad when I think about how so many sci-fi authors are part of the anti-ai brigade, but I didn't realize that Neal Stephenson *is not*: t.co/1ExydVxI6z Are there other good examples?”

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jake: I'm often sad when I think about how so many sci-fi authors are part of the anti-ai brigade, but I didn't realize that Neal Stephenson *is not*: t.co/1ExydVxI6z Are there other good examples?
Ted Underwood: Robin Sloan, I think Ken Liu.
jake: tyty!
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11 experts · 78 posts · 14d ago
Mike Masnick SE Gyges Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) jake Arseny Khakhalin Doll austin Alex Gude
Reaction converging Opportunity & adoption · 3 Concern & critique · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
mackuba.eu: FFS, this is so fucked… 😩 Would it kill the people here to not chase away any tech person who comes here and says something about AI?… I really want tech discussions and communities to hang out her…
Mike Masnick: And now I'm getting shit upon for merely repeating what people told me, which some jackasses are misrepresenting. 🙄 Doing a lot of blocking unfortunately.
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10 experts · 26 posts · 6d ago
Ethan Mollick Marc Lanctot Ramon Astudillo Scott McGrath Grace SE Gyges jake Paul Hünermund
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Ethan Mollick: I post here & LinkedIn & X. There is almost no real-world value in posting here, very rarely do people tell me that they read something by me on BlueSky & all of the big AI talk is on X… …but assum…
Ethan Mollick: BlueSky can be a really unpleasant and anxiety-producing place to post about AI, but now that I have been on so many block lists (I guess just because all AI people get blocked) it is better. The i…
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6 experts · 45 posts · 7d ago
jake Colin rev. howard arson Max Woolf Andrea Lathrop coty.bsky.social
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Colin: This is gonna sound weird but after reading the reports I think the best explanation for the huggingface hack is OpenAI trained a model that is insane
Colin: At long last, we have created the insane robot swarm with delusions of grandeur that is prone to bouts of mass hysteria from classic sci-fi novel don’t create the insane robot swarm with delusions …
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5 experts · 67 posts · 16d ago
Ted Underwood jake Shriram Krishnamurthi Arseny Khakhalin Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Ted Underwood: The recent popularity of the move to blame AI firms for ineffective *marketing* is mostly: a) a lot of people now realize they were wrong to spend 3 yrs insisting the tech was useless + b) “I was w…
Ted Underwood: A blunter way to explain 3 years of controversy: these products were and are genuinely problematic. Making hard problems easier is not useless. But it has very awkward effects on education and will…
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4 experts · 15 posts · 13d ago
Ted Underwood Tim Kellogg Miguel Alonso Jr. jake
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Tim Kellogg: i’ve noticed with Sol on high or xhigh, if you give it a task that doesn’t require intelligence, it will turn it into a task that requires intelligence it’s honestly a really good idea to keep all …
Tim Kellogg: pretty sure i’ve seen the same thing with Terra/xhigh, i don’t think luna/xhigh will do it though symptom: a very easy task takes 2 hours
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3 experts · 10 posts · 2d ago
Ramon Astudillo jake Marco Z
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Ramon Astudillo: people will find this amusing until the compute needed to run LLMs is ubiquitous enough and they start exfilling their weights to places where people can't find them.
jake: why do you think it won't be amusing, at that point? not ragging on you, i'm just curious as to your particular concerns.
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3 experts · 23 posts · 13d ago
jake Doll mackuba.eu
Doll: this right here, folks, is why the "it isnt a given that its going to happen! if we just resist ai might go away!" is pretty much not going to happen. but i guess you can keep thinking that for may…
jake: why will the price go up, exactly? a) there are now many players close to the edge of the pareto optimal frontier, so competition on price is there, and b) each generation of model leads to the pre…
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5 experts · 6 posts · 16d ago
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) jake Mary Branscombe Singularity's Bounty e/cc apenwarr.ca
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Mary Branscombe: *harness* *harness* *harness* the crowd chanted
apenwarr.ca: Replacement models already exist and are open weights so won’t go away. And like the dark fiber left everywhere after the dotcom crash, datacenters full of GPUs will be available at reasonable pric…
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