What Christopher Olah thinks about AI and science

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Interpretability researcher at Anthropic, which he co-founded; before that at OpenAI and Google Brain.

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2 dated positions, 2015, in their own words. Our reading of what Christopher Olah has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 16 Jan 2015

   Our readingIn a dimensionality-reduced visualization of high-dimensional data, the raw position of points carries no meaning on its own.

   Their wordsThe problem is that in dimensionality reduced plots of high-dimensional data, position doesn't explain the data points.

   ↗Visualizing Representations: Deep Learning and Human Beingscolah.github.io 1st of 2 in this piece

3. 16 Jan 2015

   Our readingUnderstanding a machine learning model and understanding the data it operates on are inseparable tasks.

   Their wordsUnderstanding data and understanding models that work on that data are intimately linked.

   ↗Visualizing Representations: Deep Learning and Human Beingscolah.github.io 2nd of 2 in this piece