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Imnimo • today at 7:16 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

On balance I'm not that surprised that it can guess games by looking at the weights of a tiny neural net. A human can do the same by looking at the weights of an MLP trained on mnist, for example. With that simple structure, it's easy to look at the input layer and see that features correspond to the spatial location of objects of interest.

I'm much more surprised that it can do this on larger models, although the details seem to suggest that it's given a lot more freedom to run forward passes and do limited experiments, not just eyeball the weights.


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jgbuddy • today at 8:46 PM

> although the details seem to suggest that it's given a lot more freedom to run forward passes and do limited experiments

No tools or forward passes are allowed

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kachnuv_ocasek • today at 8:19 PM

> A human can do the same by looking at the weights of an MLP trained on mnist

Excuse me?

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