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Nick Cammarata: tangled neurons in AI models were misunderstood

Nick Cammarata: tangled neurons in AI models were misunderstood

Nick Cammarata, an early mechanistic interpretability author at OpenAI, said most neurons are legible even in models up to trillions of parameters. He previously found only about 2% of neurons legible.

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