Pierre Beckmann

Dr. Matthieu Queloz, a Privatdozent at the University of Bern and author on conceptualization ethics, joins Pierre Beckmann, an AI researcher and PhD student specializing in neuro-symbolic AI. They dive into the philosophy of deep learning, exploring how LLMs represent features and concepts. The duo discusses the advantages of language-centered AI and mechanistic interpretability, emphasizing high-dimensional feature packing and the potential for LLMs to form partial world models. They also examine the social functions of understanding and the need to adapt this concept for AI.