AI Mind

The inscrutable alien 'minds' of AI models. These remarkable pieces of software are very different to most of what's come before them. Their human creators have built the architecture, the infrastructure and the methods by which these artificial minds can develop their version of intelligence, and they've fed them vast amounts of text, video, audio and other data, but from that point onward, the AIs have gone ahead and built up their own 'understanding' of the world. [...] Interpretability: Peering into the black box. "Today," writes the Anthropic Interpretability team in a blog post from late May, "we report a significant advance in understanding the inner workings of AI models. We have identified how millions of concepts are represented inside Claude Sonnet, one of our deployed large language models. This is the first ever detailed look inside a modern, production-grade large language model. This interpretability discovery could, in future, help us make AI models safer."
Essentially, the Anthropic team has been tracking the 'internal state' of its AI models as they work, having them spit out great lists of numbers representing the 'neuron activations' in their artificial brains as they interact with humans.
What's more, the researchers were able to look at the relationships between different concepts stored in the model's 'brain,' developing a measure of 'distance' between them and building a series of mind maps that show how closely concepts are connected. Near the Golden Gate Bridge concept, for example, the team found other features like Alcatraz island, the Golden State Warriors, California Governor Gavin Newsom and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake."World-first research dissects an AI's mind, and starts editing its thoughts (newatlas.com) | r/Futurology
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