@paul_cal: "The result is robust to hyperparameters, prompting, and a Fable goal loop attempting to improve it" A new academic sta…
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New research indicates that activation-based tools for AI auditing, such as activation oracles and SAEs, do not outperform simply reading transcripts, leading to a robust academic standard.
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“The result is robust to hyperparameters, prompting, and a Fable goal loop attempting to improve it”
A new academic standard was born
Adam Karvonen (@a_karvonen): We test three activation-based tools that succeeded in prior auditing games: activation oracles, natural language autoencoders, and SAEs.
None beat just reading the transcript.
The result is robust to hyperparameters, prompting, and a Fable goal loop attempting to improve it.
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