OC ACXLW AI interpretability Breakthrough from anthropic 11/​11/​23

Hello Folks!

We are excited to announce the 48th Orange County ACX/​LW meetup, happening this Saturday and most Saturdays thereafter.

Host: Michael Michalchik

Email: michaelmichalchik@gmail.com (For questions or requests)

Location: 1970 Port Laurent Place

(949) 375-2045

Date: Saturday, Nov 11, 2023

Time: 2 PM

Conversation Starters :

The first concrete step towards AI alignment and safety and our ability to make it highly useful?!

Journal club video:
https://​​youtu.be/​​hlCxSqWS6Rw?si=ONEGDAE3QiCPkWi-

Community Paper Reading: Decomposing Language Models Into Understandable Components

Short paper walkthrough:

https://​​youtu.be/​​HAxd8DoZaW4?si=X8kt9pRKHKKv1kBK

Anthropic Solved Interpretability?

The Paper itself: https://​​transformer-circuits.pub/​​2023/​​monosemantic-features/​​index.html

Zvi Moshowitz reports on the Paper:

https://​​thezvi.substack.com/​​i/​​137705383/​​cool-new-interpretability-paper

Zvi Moshowitz reports on the reactions to the Paper:

https://​​thezvi.substack.com/​​i/​​137705383/​​so-what-do-we-all-think-of-the-cool-paper

This is a chatGPT glossary and brief overview of the ideas:

https://​​chat.openai.com/​​share/​​d5465786-5d11-4aa7-9d00-ed7d5b1ef94b

  • Walk & Talk: We usually have an hour-long walk and talk after the meeting starts. Two mini-malls with hot takeout food are readily accessible nearby. Search for Gelson’s or Pavilions in the zip code 92660.

  • Share a Surprise: Tell the group about something unexpected that changed your perspective on the universe.

  • Future Direction Ideas: Contribute ideas for the group’s future direction, including topics, meeting types, activities, etc.

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