Better-learning models tend to be more interpretable, argues Nick Cammarata
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-16
In a reply, Nick Cammarata argues that models that learn better tend to be more interpretable. He says his essay looks at three very different architecture families — old convnets, new convnets, and modern transformers — to make the point, and predicts the pattern should hold for whatever architecture comes next.
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