Any Circuit Computation is Neuralese, Says OpenAI Staffer

tszzl · x · 2026-09-02

The author posits that any circuit computation performed by models constitutes 'neuralese.' They observe that the forward pass of frontier models improves significantly at this capability every few months. The author clarifies that this is not the official position of OpenAI's alignment team and represents their own 'strange views.'

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