Trenton Bricken @TrentonBricken
Trying to figure out what makes minds and machines go "Beep Bop!" @AnthropicAI trentonbricken.com San Francisco Joined March 2014-
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Use dictionary learning to find circuits that actually explain network behavior. Eg they’re able to ablate away gender bias! The whole process can also be made scalable and unsupervised. Awesome work @saprmarks et al.
Use dictionary learning to find circuits that actually explain network behavior. Eg they’re able to ablate away gender bias! The whole process can also be made scalable and unsupervised. Awesome work @saprmarks et al.
This is the most effective, reliable, and hard to train away jailbreak I know of. It's also principled (based on in-context learning) and predictably gets worse with model scale and context length.
This is the most effective, reliable, and hard to train away jailbreak I know of. It's also principled (based on in-context learning) and predictably gets worse with model scale and context length.
We have a long way to go on figuring out the implications of long contexts. Congrats @cem__anil and team on publishing this important work.
We have a long way to go on figuring out the implications of long contexts. Congrats @cem__anil and team on publishing this important work.
.@_sholtodouglas poses a challenge. In the spirit of @natfriedman (whose Vesuvius Challenge was solved by a listener of my podcast - @LukeFarritor). Can you figure out what the experts in a Mixture of Experts model are each specialized in? "A wonderful research project to do:…
Yay! Welcome @craigcitro :)
.@dwarkesh_sp asked fantastic questions and @_sholtodouglas was a wonderful co-guest. I’m lucky to call them both friends and to have all our conversations. I hope you find this conversation interesting!
.@dwarkesh_sp asked fantastic questions and @_sholtodouglas was a wonderful co-guest. I’m lucky to call them both friends and to have all our conversations. I hope you find this conversation interesting!
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Given that you need 100x more effective compute between model generations, if we don’t get AGI by GPT-7, will we just never get it? @_sholtodouglas: “GPT-4 costs, let's call it, $100 million. The $1B, $10B, and $100B run, all seem very plausible by private company standards. You…
Some examples of the kind of quality I'm thinking of (admittedly both were instigated by the individuals rather than from a RFR, but are good examples of non-traditional signals, and both people now work at Anthropic): - @andy_l_jones "Scaling Scaling Laws with Board Games". Just…
I'll be a research supervisor for MATS this summer. If you're keen to collaborate with me on alignment research, I'd highly recommend filling out the short app (deadline today)! Past projects have led to some of my papers on debate, chain of thought faithfulness, and sycophancy
I'll be a research supervisor for MATS this summer. If you're keen to collaborate with me on alignment research, I'd highly recommend filling out the short app (deadline today)! Past projects have led to some of my papers on debate, chain of thought faithfulness, and sycophancy
Another small update from us, including some fun results about circuit analysis with SAEs.
Another small update from us, including some fun results about circuit analysis with SAEs.
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AK @_akhaliq
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Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹.. @ESYudkowsky
175K Followers 89 Following The original AI alignment person. Missing punctuation at the end of a sentence means it's humor. If you're not sure, it's also very likely humor.
Jürgen Schmidhuber @SchmidhuberAI
106K Followers 0 Following Invented principles of meta-learning (1987), GANs (1990), Transformers (1991), very deep learning (1991), etc. Our AI is used many billions of times every day.
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aidan @AidanFitzzz
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Samuel Marks @saprmarks
694 Followers 79 Following Postdoc studying interpretability for AI safety under @davidbau. PhD in math from @harvard. Previously director of technical programs at https://t.co/FxRv4QgERO.
Grace @milquepoast
15K Followers 967 Following for why do you post except for what it says about youIt's a great week for mech interp releases! I'm very excited to try out Anthropic's new recommendations for stable dictionary learning
Some small updates from the Anthropic Interpretability team: transformer-circuits.pub/2024/april-upd…
Scaling laws for dictionary learning! transformer-circuits.pub/2024/april-upd…
Some small updates from the Anthropic Interpretability team: transformer-circuits.pub/2024/april-upd…
Some small updates from the Anthropic Interpretability team: transformer-circuits.pub/2024/april-upd…
the only reason i deacc’d was to take a twitter detox break and reduce complexity for a while (not to create more drama!) but accidentally made all my friends concerned. im okay, everyone’s okay, and the singularity’s not yet here. i’ll just log off the normal way instead!
Fantastic work from @sen_r and @ArthurConmy - done in an impressive 2 week paper sprint! Gated SAEs are a new sparse autoencoder architecture that seem a major Pareto improvement. This is now my team's preferred way to train SAEs, and I hope it'll accelerate the community's work!
New @GoogleDeepMind MechInterp work! We introduce Gated SAEs, a Pareto improvement over existing sparse autoencoders. They find equally good reconstructions with around half as many firing features, while maintaining interpretability (CI 0-13% improvement). Joint w/ @ArthurConmy
I'm super excited this post is out! Activation patching is a crucial mech interp technique, but is deceptively hard to use well. In this informal note we discuss the details of different variants of activation patching, thinking intuitively, and choosing the right metrics.
Excited to share our write-up on activation patching best practices for mechanistic interpretability, with @NeelNanda5! Discussing noising vs. denoising and what's necessary vs. sufficient. Plus tips on which metrics to use to avoid common pitfalls. arxiv.org/abs/2404.15255
This result is pretty clearly specific to the style of backdoor we're working with, and doesn't support broad claims like 'interpretability solves misalignment', but it's still surprisingly strong. Worth a look!
New Anthropic research: we find that probing, a simple interpretability technique, can detect when backdoored "sleeper agent" models are about to behave dangerously, after they pretend to be safe in training. Check out our first alignment blog post here: anthropic.com/research/probe…
@AlexTamkin @aryaman2020 @TrentonBricken Burns did some sophisticated stuff to get a “truthfulness” direction in activation-space; a “sneakiness” direction is (apparently!) much easier to find. But these approaches have in common that they’re probing uninterpreted directions in activation-space. x.com/davidad/status…
@jasoncrawford On the one hand, this is absolutely not a black-box method: it makes use of our direct access to read out the values of every internal neuron. On the other hand, it makes absolutely no attempt to understand the meaning of any neurons or how the neurons interact to process info.
Some new research is out from the Alignment team! Congrats to Monte & @EvanHub for great work :)
New Anthropic research: we find that probing, a simple interpretability technique, can detect when backdoored "sleeper agent" models are about to behave dangerously, after they pretend to be safe in training. Check out our first alignment blog post here: anthropic.com/research/probe…
If you want to hire a tuba player for your next hackathon or demo day, please contact Zach. He was perfect. Let's make him the official tuba player of San Francisco tech events. gigsalad.com/zachariah_frie…
AI Grant has a tuba that plays you offstage if your pitch goes long, and I think all demo days need this
@TrentonBricken the fact that it works with a probe trained on 2 samples (yes/no answers) is just...wow.
Some of our first steps on developing mitigations for sleeper agents
New Anthropic research: we find that probing, a simple interpretability technique, can detect when backdoored "sleeper agent" models are about to behave dangerously, after they pretend to be safe in training. Check out our first alignment blog post here: anthropic.com/research/probe…
New Anthropic research: we find that probing, a simple interpretability technique, can detect when backdoored "sleeper agent" models are about to behave dangerously, after they pretend to be safe in training. Check out our first alignment blog post here: anthropic.com/research/probe…
I'm so glad we are using MMLU to judge our LLMs I couldn't imagine my AI not nailing these test questions!
Last 28 days 🤯 While the Zuck & Trenton/Sholto episodes are doing extremely well on YouTube, what I'm proudest of is that most of these views are actually from Sarah Paine content! She is one of the greatest living historians, but her work wasn't really publicly well known…
I've finally uploaded the thesis on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2404.12150 It ties together a bunch of papers exploring some alternatives to RL for finetuning LMs, including pretraining with human preferences and minimizing KL divergences from pre-defined target distributions.
I was very impressed with @tomekkorbak's thesis! Some really nice insights into LLM alignment: 1) RL is not the way --> distribution matching let's us target constraints like "generate as many of these as of those" 2) fine-tuning is not the way --> PHF aligns during pre-training
you call them nvidia developers - i call them: "those held hostage when they tried to download the latest driver"
Nvidia hit 100k developers in 7 years. Our goal was to hit 100k developers in 7 weeks. It's been 6 weeks, and...
Doesn't use AI, must not be important.
A eukaryote that fixes nitrogen(!): newscenter.lbl.gov/2024/04/17/sci…
@TheAnnaGat @dwarkesh_sp @taylorswift13 go on the dwarkesh pod!
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