Mechanistic interpretability
Features and circuits have been found inside language models, including with sparse dictionary methods since 2023. Explaining a whole frontier model's behavior in these terms is far off. Benchmarks for what counts as an explanation are still being built.
Related problems
- The original curation links this problem to AI alignment; the argument for the link has not been written yet.
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- related to AI alignment open
The original curation links this problem to AI alignment; the argument for the link has not been written yet.
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