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I was recently looking for scenarios to try out some mechanistic interpretability methods available in the Neuronpedia tool. Neuronpedia has interactive implementations of the J-Lens, Oracle Lens, and Natural Language Autoencoders, among others. Here’s the prompt I landed on: Let’s play the animal guessing game. You pick a random animal. Then, the user can ask…
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Are LLMs conscious? Today’s LLMs are missing some capabilities that we typically associate with consciousness, such as persistent memory, continuous updating, or an ability to interact with their environment. Nonetheless, the question of whether an LLM is conscious while performing inference seems valid. Some people argue that LLMs can’t possibly be conscious, because they only…
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A major trend of this year has been vibe coding – using LLMs to create software from the ground up, without a human ever interacting with the source code directly. The current consensus is that vibe coding isn’t quite ready yet for developing critical production software. But while those issues are being worked out, we…
