Meme revives "Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?" for AI interpretability
ninamiolane · x · 2026-10-20
Amid all the talk about neuron poly/mono-semanticity, a meme reworks the famous paper title "Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?", crossing out "Neuroscientist" for "AI Researcher" — questioning whether interpretability researchers face the same epistemic gap when probing models as neuroscientists do when reverse-engineering chips.
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