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Developing AI research Resource 2d ago
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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…
Olivia Guest: 💯
jake: lyInG tHeFT mAchIne thAt's rUInInG peOple'S wAtER
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Developing Models & releases Research 2d ago
mathematical framework transformer circuits paper

A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits

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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…”

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Developing Safety & security Resource 2d ago
mechanistic interpretability researcher guide

How To Become A Mechanistic Interpretability Researcher — AI Alignment Forum

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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…”

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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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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?”

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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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