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Sarah Schwettmann
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Co-founder and Chief Scientist, @TransluceAI, prev @MIT
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    Sarah Schwettmann
    @cogconfluence
    Nov 28, 2017
    Asked a bunch of mechanical turkers what one question they would ask to determine if they were talking to a human or AI. fave reply: When is the last time your teeth felt like they had little sweaters on them?
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    Sarah Schwettmann
    @cogconfluence
    Jan 17, 2016
    Q: Why did the deep net cross the road? A: We don't know. But look, it did it really well... #deeplearning
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    Sarah Schwettmann
    @cogconfluence
    Feb 6, 2019
    New project is live: gen.studio a collaboration with @metmuseum & @microsoft For each object at the Met, we can > find a corresponding object in GAN latent space > traverse latent space between objects to discover artworks that could have been made, but never were
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    Sarah Schwettmann
    @cogconfluence
    Dec 26, 2017
    the word 'bed' is shaped like a bed
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    Sarah Schwettmann
    @cogconfluence
    Apr 26, 2024
    MAIA (A Multimodal Automated Interpretability Agent) is here! 🧵 📝New paper: arxiv.org/abs/2404.14394 🌐Website: …imodal-interpretability.csail.mit.edu/maia/ Agents like MAIA advance automated interpretation of AI systems from one-shot feature description into an interactive regime where hypotheses
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    Sarah Schwettmann
    @cogconfluence
    Oct 25, 2024
    So, update, I'm founding @TransluceAI with @JacobSteinhardt. In thinking about where I’d go next with the automated interpretability work I’ve been doing, a few things were important: (1) to scale our ability to understand AI systems, both their internals and their behaviors (2)
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    Transluce
    @TransluceAI
    Oct 23, 2024
    Announcing Transluce, a nonprofit research lab building open source, scalable technology for understanding AI systems and steering them in the public interest. Read a letter from the co-founders Jacob Steinhardt and Sarah Schwettmann: transluce.org/introducing-tr…
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    Sarah Schwettmann
    @cogconfluence
    Nov 26, 2020
    Saved this from Passover but you know what? Most of these holidays are about something like this, and if your practice has grown too stiff, maybe it’s the perfect moment for a little re-examination (originally from @alananewhouse)
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    Sarah Schwettmann
    @cogconfluence
    Jan 28, 2017
    This morning, we find out an MIT undergrad ('18) with student visa was denied re-entry into the US after her holiday travels to Iran.
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    Sarah Schwettmann
    @cogconfluence
    Sep 19, 2023
    🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨 Understanding increasingly large and complex neural networks will almost certainly require other AI models (themselves uninterpretable!) How should we evaluate automated interpretability methods? Introducing our new benchmark, FIND: huggingface.co/papers/2309.03…
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    Sarah Schwettmann
    @cogconfluence
    Dec 18, 2019
    I have a new paper out! To reason physically about the world, the brain encodes abstract representations of key variables (like mass) that generalize across scene differences. This invariance is what we'd expect to support a physics engine in the brain:
    elifesciences.org
    Invariant representations of mass in the human brain
    A network of brain regions implicated in physical inference represents abstract, generalizable variables used as inputs to physics engines.
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    Sarah Schwettmann
    @cogconfluence
    May 26, 2017
    We trained a neural network to produce new drawings in @shantell_martin's style! Check it out 6/9-7/21 @galleryopen galleryopen.org/mind-the-machi…
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    Sarah Schwettmann
    @cogconfluence
    Apr 23, 2024
    Thanks @_akhaliq! MAIA is next in our line of work on Interpretability Agents that interrogate other models, and the functions of their components, using iterative experimentation. Project page: …imodal-interpretability.csail.mit.edu/maia/ w/ @TamarRottShaham @f_x_wang @AchyutaBot @evanqed
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    @_akhaliq
    Apr 23, 2024
    A Multimodal Automated Interpretability Agent This paper describes MAIA, a Multimodal Automated Interpretability Agent. MAIA is a system that uses neural models to automate neural model understanding tasks like feature interpretation and failure mode discovery. It equips a
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    Sarah Schwettmann
    @cogconfluence
    Jul 11, 2016
    #YannLecun at MIT! Deep learning packs the room yet again. Today: unsupervised learning as the path to common sense
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    Sarah Schwettmann
    @cogconfluence
    May 31, 2017
    Developed a new course that I'm excited to offer this fall at MIT – Exploring perception as an act of creation via visual art & neuroscience