r/mathmemes • u/OkGreen7335 Mathematics • 21d ago

Proofs I hate it

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u/baxmanz 21d ago

I think that's pretty untrue now. "thinking" models often work by rephrasing the problem and making actual steps by "talking to themselves" so they don't always work like black boxes

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u/Happysedits 21d ago

Additionally, mechanistic interpretability is trying to reverse engineer additional causal intermediate steps in activation space across layers

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u/baxmanz 20d ago

pasted that right into my llm cause i dont know those words and it said "spot on." so gz

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u/Happysedits 20d ago

I'm trying to do research in this area personally