Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens

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Researchers at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind are developing novel techniques to understand how large language models work by treating them like biological organisms rather than traditional software. Using mechanistic interpretability (sparse autoencoders that trace activation patterns) and chain-of-thought monitoring

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