🦄 I'm super thrilled by Anthropic's blog post “Mapping the Mind of a Large Language Model”
written by Stefan Christoph
🦄 I’m super thrilled by Anthropic’s blog post “Mapping the Mind of a Large Language Model”(https://www.anthropic.com/news/mapping-mind-language-model). On their way to turn the black box into a little bit more transparent: they extract human-interpretable features from Claude 3 Sonnet — a real glimpse inside one production LLM, even if far from a full explanation of how these models work. It loosely reminds me of how neuroscientists map brain activity to concepts — my analogy, not a shared method.
🌟 Like always there are flip-sides, but I’m with Anthropic. There are easier ways to create harm and personally I think better understanding of technology will be beneficial.
🤯 I’m still chewing on the paper “Scaling Monosemanticity: Extracting Interpretable Features from Claude 3 Sonnet”(https://transformer-circuits.pub/2024/scaling-monosemanticity/index.html). Not just an impressive title but full of deep details :D.
📽 AI Explained covers this paper in their current YT video: https://youtu.be/UsXJhFeuwz0?si=RPVdfd9B2RnTO-xY&t=767 Like always very good explained and very approachable.
🏃♂️ Excited to dive deeper and to see what comes next - but now out for a run to consolidate my mind 😀
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