NYU's @andrewgwils argues mechanistic interpretability was a missed opportunity that narrowed into an esoteric effort to understand individual neurons instead of explaining how models generalize. On the same afternoon, a widely shared thread from @wma...
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Interpretability fight: "a bait and switch" versus new evidence that neurons matter
NYU's @andrewgwils argues mechanistic interpretability was a missed opportunity that narrowed into an esoteric effort to understand individual neurons instead of explaining how models generalize. On the same afternoon, a widely shared thread from @wma...
NYU's @andrewgwils argues mechanistic interpretability was a missed opportunity that narrowed into an esoteric effort to understand individual neurons instead of explaining how models generalize. On the same afternoon, a widely shared thread from @wmayner showed that steering just 100 of Qwen3-8B's roughly 440,000...
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