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Trenton Bricken: belief

28 Mar 2024 Dwarkesh Podcast Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken — How LLMs actually think

“I think the David Bell lab paper kind of supports this. You have that ability and you're just getting better at entity recognition, fine-tuning that circuit instead of other ones.”

— Trenton Bricken

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Speaker
Trenton Bricken
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
28 Mar 2024
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

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…I wouldn't necessarily say that. There’s one mode of thinking in which fine-tuning is specialized, you've got this latent bundle of capabilities and you're specializing it for this particular use case that you want. I think I'm not sure how true or not that is. I think the David Bell lab paper kind of supports this. You have that ability and you're just getting better at entity recognition, fine-tuning that circuit instead of other ones. Sorry, what was the thing we were talking about before?…

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