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FeepingCreaturelast Wednesday at 4:52 PM1 replyview on HN

This is true though. While we know what they do on a mechanistic level, we cannot reliably analyze why the model outputs any particular answer in functional terms without a heroic effort at the "arxiv paper" level.


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dkdciolast Wednesday at 5:07 PM

that’s true of analyzing individual atoms in a combustion engine — yet I doubt you’d claim we don’t know how they work

also this went from “we can’t analyze” to “we can’t analyze reliably [without a lot of effort]” quite quickly

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