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Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Show with Soroush Pour

Ep 14 - Interp, latent robustness, RLHF limitations w/ Stephen Casper (PhD AI researcher, MIT)

Jun 19, 2024
PhD AI researcher Stephen Casper discusses interpretability, robustness, and limitations of AI models. They explore AI safety, risks, research gaps, and advice for early career researchers. Casper emphasizes finding flaws in neural nets, AGI risks, and practical AI applications.
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Quick takeaways

  • Interpretability is crucial for AI safety and understanding model behavior.
  • AI systems face risks from autonomous power and human misuse, stressing the need for institutional safeguards.

Deep dives

Interpreting the Internal Workings of AI Models

Researchers are focusing on better understanding the internal workings of AI models, known as interpretability, to address technical and policy gaps in AI system robustness. Work includes enhancing AI model interpretability for human-interpretable concepts and identifying flaws through interpretability tools like sparse autoencoders.

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