Someone found the famous "alien neuron" in an LLM
Sauers_ · x · 2026-10-18
Bryson Tang shared that he located the "alien neuron" many in interpretability circles have talked about, with details for anyone curious. A fun, notable moment from LLM interpretability research.
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