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Mapping the Mind of a Large Language Model (www.anthropic.com)

submitted 6 months ago by kromem@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I often see a lot of people with outdated understanding of modern LLMs.

This is probably the best interpretability research to date, by the leading interpretability research team.

It's worth a read if you want a peek behind the curtain on modern models.

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[–] Womble@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Youd be surprised at the level of unthinking hatred around them, but even discarding that Ive seen it said often that LLMs have no internal model of what they are talking about as they are just next word generators. This quite clearly contradicts that interpretation.

[–] Spedwell@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

concepts embedded in them

internal model

You used both phrases in this thread, but those are two very different things. It's a stretch to say this research supports the latter.

Yes, LLMs are still next-token generators. That is a descriptive statement about how they operate. They just have embedded knowledge that allows them to generate sometimes meaningful text.