OpenAI is making progress in understanding how AI model GPT-4 'thinks'

From Future plc: 2024-06-07 09:19:39

AI developers are struggling to understand what their creations like ChatGPT do with the information they’ve been trained on. OpenAI researchers have found 16 million features in GPT-4 to decode what the model is ‘thinking’ about using sparse autoencoders. Understanding AI models is crucial for safety and interpretability in the long term.

OpenAI has made progress in training sparse autoencoders at scale and disentangling GPT-4’s internal representations into 16 million features. This helps reveal what large language models like GPT-4 are focusing on, but there are limitations in interpretation and validation. OpenAI aims to use this insight for monitoring and steering language model behaviors.



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