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The SAIRC Discussion Forum is a space for AI enthusiasts to share what they're thinking about. No formal research paper required. Posts can be submitted anonymously and span a wide range of formats:
- Tutorials or deep-dives on AI topics
- Fresh perspectives: reframings or new ways of looking at something
- Novel research results communicated in plain language
- Resources and opportunities in AI (summer programs, tools, datasets)
- Thought experiments and speculative ideas
- Notes or study guides from courses
Recent Posts
Mechanistic Interpretability and the Curses of Scaled Networks
Mechanistic interpretability is the practice of reverse-engineering deep-learning systems to understand their inner algorithms. If we can figure out what a neural network is actual…
What Students Want Teachers to Know About AI
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Back in December I sat down with a handful of HS students on a couple different occasions to talk about AI — their thoughts, attit…
In an AI World, What's the Work?
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More than a decade ago, immersed in research on competency-based education, I read Leaders of Their Own Learning, a comprehensive …
AI Shouldn't Be Doing More Philosophy Than Students
Reposted with Permission from Mike Taubman and AI Waypoints.
Last weekend I found out that AIs can now reincarnate. This got me thinking about both the high school juniors I teach …
Labor Market Impacts of AI: A New Measure and Early Evidence
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There's No Token for the Way the End of High School Feels
Reposted with permission by Mike Taubman.
Today in our AI literacy class, Scott Kern and I helped students open the hood to see how AI works, one pillar of the AI Driver's License …
Painless Activation Steering (PAS): Automated, Lightweight Post-Training for LLM Behavior
Reproduced with permission from Sasha Cui
We're releasing "Painless Activation Steering (PAS)," a fully automated approach to steer large language models after training—without mo…
(When) Is Mechanistic Interpretability Identifiable?
I recently finished a paper, "Characterizing Mechanistic Uniqueness and Identifiability Through Circuit Analysis," alongside a group of three others and a mentor. This post discuss…
Mamba's Memory Problem
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What Exactly Are Diffusion Models?
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Would a Language Model Push You Off A Bridge? Pt. 2
Utilitarianism, to recap, is a consequentialist decision-making framework which states that the best actions produce the most 'pleasure' for the greatest number of people. Deontolo…
How to Use Deep Learning for Flood Forecasting
Reposted with permission from Devansh.
Following is an excerpt from my article, "How Google Built an Open Source AI to Provide Accurate Flood Warnings for 460 Million People." The …
What is Concept Drift and How to Solve It
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Thanks to their versatility, Neural Networks are a staple in most modern Machine Learning pipelines. Their ability to work with unstructured …
Would a Language Model Push You Off A Bridge?
In the context of this post, 'utilitarianism' is a consequentialist decision-making framework which operates under the idea that the best action produces the most pleasure for the …
Comparison of Convolutional & Feed-Forward Architectures on MNIST Digit Classification
I was unable to use Google Colaboratory for quite a bit, so it took me much longer than necessary to make this post. However, I'm finally able to log back in! This is the experimen…