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Chris Olah

1 episodes · 4 quoted claims

Chris Olah says that while at OpenAI he found a dedicated Donald Trump neuron in the CLIP vision model.

“to give a concrete example, there we found that there was a Donald Trump neuron.”

Lex Fridman Podcast · 4:30:55

Chris Olah says he spent years studying Inception v1, a vision model that was state-of-the-art in 2015.

“Inception v1, um, which is this one vision model, it was, um, state-of-the-art in 2015”

Lex Fridman Podcast · 4:34:13

In Anthropic's Towards Monosemanticity work, Chris Olah says dictionary learning on a one-layer model produced interpretable features.

“So, we took a 1 layer model, um, and it turns out if you go and you, you know, do dictionary learning on it, you find all these really nice interpretable features.”

Lex Fridman Podcast · 4:58:29

Chris Olah says Anthropic's Scaling Monosemanticity work applied sparse autoencoders to Claude 3 Sonnet, then a production model.

“and we did it on Claude 3 Sonnet, which at at that point was, uh, one of our production models.”

Lex Fridman Podcast · 5:07:16