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Open-source tool lets you peek inside an AI's 'thoughts' before it speaks

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from Hacker News ·

A developer built Lucid, a free web tool that visualizes and edits the internal representations of small open-source language models. Based on Anthropic's Jacobian Lens technique, it shows which concepts activate in middle layers before a word is chosen. Users can also inject concepts like 'fire' into the model's internal state to alter its output.

Meridian48 take
While limited to small models and early-stage research, this tool offers a tangible glimpse into mechanistic interpretability that could eventually improve AI alignment and bias detection.
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