Introducing Activation Atlases

Practical AI: Tools, Models & Frameworks

What changed

We’ve created activation atlases (in collaboration with Google researchers), a new technique for visualizing what interactions between neurons can represent. As AI systems are deployed in increasingly sensitive contexts, having a better understanding of their internal decision-making processes will let us identify weaknesses and investigate failures.

Why it matters

A concrete addition to Practical AI: Tools, Models & Frameworks: it changes what's available to builders today rather than being general commentary.

How it compares

Related prior coverage to compare against:

  • Understanding the source of what we see and hear online
  • Introducing Decision Transformers on Hugging Face 🤗
  • Multimodal neurons in artificial neural networks

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