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EPISODE · Dec 1, 2023 · 23 MIN

God Help Us, Let's Try To Understand AI Monosemanticity

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Inside every AI is a bigger AI, trying to get out You've probably heard AI is a "black box". No one knows how it works. Researchers simulate a weird type of pseudo-neural-tissue, "reward" it a little every time it becomes a little more like the AI they want, and eventually it becomes the AI they want. But God only knows what goes on inside of it. This is bad for safety. For safety, it would be nice to look inside the AI and see whether it's executing an algorithm like "do the thing" or more like "trick the humans into thinking I'm doing the thing". But we can't. Because we can't look inside an AI at all. Until now! Towards Monosemanticity, recently out of big AI company/research lab Anthropic, claims to have gazed inside an AI and seen its soul. It looks like this: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/god-help-us-lets-try-to-understand

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