Researcher touts Virtual Neural Animals for building neuroscience interpretability methods with LLMs
neuroecology · x · 2026-09-13
neuroecology, no longer closely following academic systems neuroscience, argues that Virtual Neural Animals are a promising way to develop and validate neuroscience interpretability methods. He says he's already impressed by how good LLMs are at neural interpretability, and asks whether this is already common practice in the field.
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