Chris Olah quotes on AI, with sources

Co-founder, Anthropic · 5 quotes · latest Nov 11, 2024

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Nov 11, 2024	And so in some sense, neural networks may be shadows of much larger sparser neural networks.Nov 11, 2024· Interview	InterviewLex Fridman Podcast #452 (with Dario Amodei and Amanda Askell)	Source
Nov 11, 2024	And the neural network architecture, it’s kind of like a scaffold that the circuits grow on.Nov 11, 2024· Interview	InterviewLex Fridman Podcast #452 (with Dario Amodei and Amanda Askell)	Source
Nov 11, 2024	But I think that there is an incredibly rich structure to be discovered inside neural networks, a lot of very deep beauty if we’re just willing to take the time to go and see it and understand it.Nov 11, 2024· Interview	InterviewLex Fridman Podcast #452 (with Dario Amodei and Amanda Askell)	Source
Nov 11, 2024	I think one useful way to think about neural networks is that we don’t program, we don’t make them, we grow them.Nov 11, 2024· Interview	InterviewLex Fridman Podcast #452 (with Dario Amodei and Amanda Askell)	Source
Nov 11, 2024	If you train a sparse auto encoder, these beautiful interpretable features start to just fall out where there weren’t any beforehand.Nov 11, 2024· Interview	InterviewLex Fridman Podcast #452 (with Dario Amodei and Amanda Askell)	Source

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