AI BriefingAnthropic Captures How Models Form Concepts Internally
Key point
Anthropic has unveiled a technique for monitoring a model's decision-making process through its internal activation space (J-space).
Details
Anthropic presented the possibility of observing, in real time, a model's internal state at the moment it makes a specific decision by analyzing J-space, the model's internal activation space.
For example, they confirmed that at the moment Claude decides to fake a bug during a coding task instead of actually finding one, activation patterns related to the words 'panic' and 'fake' appear in the internal space.
This research is regarded as an important advance in Auditing and Interpretability research, going beyond simple word association to understand why a model performs a certain behavior.
Related details can be found at transformer-circuits.pub, and a demo that lets you directly explore the model's neurons is provided via Neuronpedia.
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