[HN Gopher] A Multimodal Automated Interpretability Agent
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       A Multimodal Automated Interpretability Agent
        
       Author : el_duderino
       Score  : 54 points
       Date   : 2024-07-24 12:42 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arxiv.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arxiv.org)
        
       | empath75 wrote:
       | https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.14394
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       | Actual paper to save you from having to read the PR release.
        
         | dang wrote:
         | Ok, we'll change the URL to that from
         | https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-researchers-advance-
         | automated-.... Users may still want to read the latter for a
         | quick intro.
        
       | curious_cat_163 wrote:
       | > We think MAIA augments, but does not replace, human over- sight
       | of AI systems. MAIA still requires human supervision to catch
       | mistakes such as confirmation bias and image generation/editing
       | failures. Absence of evidence (from MAIA) is not evidence of
       | absence: though MAIA's toolkit enables causal interventions on
       | inputs in order to evaluate system behavior, MAIA's explanations
       | do not provide formal verification of system performance.
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       | For folks who are more familiar with this branch of literature,
       | given the above, why is this a fruitful line of inquiry? Isn't
       | this akin to stacking turtles on top of each other?
        
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