"A brief(ish) introduction to LM psychology" by Raymond Douglas, Jan_Kulveit

Podcast: LessWrong (Curated & Popular) · LessWrong

Opublikowano: 2026-10-21

Why LM Psychology? One of the great ironies of modern language models is that we create them, we know exactly what computations constitute them, and yet we do not really understand them. More precisely, we do not understand them on a level of abstraction that lets us reliably predict how their behaviour will generalise: there's a trivial sense in which we can predict how they will behave in specific new situations — we can just run the computations — but we can’t answer the broader questions we really want to be able to answer, like “has this system internalised our valu...