alt Hacker NewsI'm a psychiatry resident who finds LLM research fascinating because of how strongly it reminds me of our efforts to understand the human brain/mind.
I dare say that in some ways, we understand LLMs better than humans, or at least the interpretability tools are now superior. Awkward place to be, but an interesting one.
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evilduck • yesterday at 6:05 PM
To be fair to your field, that advancement seems expected, no? We can do things to LLMs that we can't ethically or practically do to humans.
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LLMs are orders of magnitude simpler than brains, and we literally designed them from scratch. Also, we have full control over their operation and we can trace every signal.
Are you surprised we understand them better than brains?