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Large language models are grown rather than built, and nobody really knows how the resulting working AI functions.

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  1. Scott Alexander

    Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten

    Large language models are “grown, not built”. Researchers run training data through a neural network. Eventually this creates a working AI; nobody really knows how.

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    ↗God Help Us, Let’s Try To Learn About Mechanistic Interpretability Techniquesastralcodexten.com

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