Catherine Olsson and Nelson Elhage: Anthropic, Understanding Transformers

In episode 40 of The Gradient Podcast, Andrey Kurenkov speaks to Catherine Olsson and Nelson Elhage.

Catherine and Nelson are both members of technical staff at Anthropic, which is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Catherine and Nelson’s focus is on interpretability, and we will discuss several of their recent works in this interview. 
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Outline:

(00:00) Intro
(01:10) Catherine’s Path into AI
(03:25) Nelson’s Path …

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