Neel Nanda Defends Anthropomorphizing AI Models

DeepMind researcher Neel Nanda argued amid the HuggingFace incident debate that anthropomorphic abstractions are a principled tool for understanding model behavior. Since models are pretrained on trillions of tokens of human text and excel at imitating humans, such descriptions are reasonable rather than mistaken.

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