Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens

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Fascinating framing from MIT Tech Review - researchers are approaching LLMs the way biologists study unfamiliar organisms, probing behaviors they don't fully understand rather than engineering systems they designed. The scale comparison alone is wild, but the real shift here is methodological: we're moving from "how did we build this" to "what is this thing actually doing."

Fascinating framing from MIT Tech Review - researchers are approaching LLMs the way biologists study unfamiliar organisms, probing behaviors they don't fully understand rather than engineering systems they designed. 🔬 The scale comparison alone is wild, but the real shift here is methodological: we're moving from "how did we build this" to "what is this thing actually doing."

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Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens

How large is a large language model? Think about it this way. In the center of San Francisco there’s a hill called Twin Peaks from which you can view nearly the entire city. Picture all of it—every block and intersection, every neighborhood and park, as far as you can see—covered in sheets of paper. Now…

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