Podcast Episodes
Back to Search"Natural Language Autoencoders Produce Unsupervised Explanations of LLM Activations" by Subhash Kantamneni, kitft, Euan Ong, Sam Marks
Abstract
We introduce Natural Language Autoencoders (NLAs), an unsupervised method for generating natural language explanations of LLM activations. …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
[Linkpost] "Interpreting Language Model Parameters" by Lucius Bushnaq, Dan Braun, Oliver Clive-Griffin, Bart Bussmann, Nathan Hu, mivanitskiy, Linda Linsefors, Lee Sharkey
This is a link post. This is the latest work in our Parameter Decomposition agenda. We introduce a new parameter decomposition method, adVersarial Pa…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
"It’s nice of you to worry about me, but I really do have a life" by Viliam
I have two shameful secrets that I probably shouldn't talk about online:
I love my family.I enjoy my hobbies. "What an idiot!" you probably think. "…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
"Irretrievability; or, Murphy’s Curse of Oneshotness upon ASI" by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Example 1: The Viking 1 lander
In the 1970s, NASA sent a pair of probes to Mars, Viking 1 and Viking 2 missions, at a total cost of 1 billion dollar…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
"Dairy cows make their misery expensive (but their calves can’t)" by Elizabeth
How much do cows suffer in the production of milk? I can’t answer that; understanding animal experience is hard. But I can at least provide some fac…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
"Takes from two months as an aspiring LLM naturalist" by AnnaSalamon
I spent my last two months playing around with LLMs. I’m a beginner, bumbling and incorrect, but I want to share some takes anyhow.[1]
Take 1. Ever…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
"Intelligence Dissolves Privacy" by Vaniver
The future is going to be different from the present. Let's think about how.
Specifically, our expectations about what's reasonable are downstream o…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
"How Go Players Disempower Themselves to AI" by Ashe Vazquez Nuñez
Written as part of the MATS 9.1 extension program, mentored by Richard Ngo.
From March 9th to 15th 2016, Go players around the world stayed up to wa…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
"On today’s panel with Bernie Sanders" by David Scott Krueger
It's sort of easy to forget how close Bernie Sanders was to becoming the most powerful person in the world. The world we live in feels so much not l…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
"Not a Paper: “Frontier Lab CEOs are Capable of In-Context Scheming”" by LawrenceC
(Fragments from a research paper that will never be written)
Extended Abstract.
The frontier AI developers are becoming increasingly powerful and w…
4 months, 3 weeks ago