Researcher champions "Virtual Neural Animals" as a paradigm for interpretability research
neuroecology · x · 2026-09-13
Following his experiment where Claude dissected the neural networks controlling virtual birds, the author argues that "Virtual Neural Animals" are a promising way to develop and understand neuroscience interpretability methods, and says he is already impressed by how good LLMs are at neural interpretability.
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