Anthropic's conceptual mapping helps explain why LLMs behave the way they do.
How LLMs are and are not like the brain
Hi from buttondown! At the bottom of this newsletter is a bit of administrivia about the new platform How LLMs are and are not like the brain Beneath all the...
Why do LLMs make stuff up? New research peers under the hood.
Claude's faulty "known entity" neurons sometimes override its "don't answer" circuitry.
ADD / XOR / ROL: A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs
In many discussions where questions of "alignment" or "AI safety" crop up, I am baffled by seriously intelligent people imbuing almost magic...
What Happens, Exactly, When a Person Talks to an LLM?
A phenomenology of thinking with a model.
Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Once you understand the corporate culture of AI "hyperscalers" consists primarily of everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, a lot of things snap into focus:
Why Are LLMs Smart?
A popular way to explain how current LLMs work is to say that “all” they do is predict the next most likely word in a sentence.
Understanding Multimodal LLMs
An introduction to the main techniques and latest models
LLMs are not like manufacturing machines - Ross Wintle
LLMs are not just machines. They are machine-building machines! This comes with way more responsibility. And understanding it may change how you use them.
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An LLM is a computer program. We should talk about it like a computer program.
Artificial
An LLM is a computer program. We should talk about it like a computer program.
Scientists Say LLMs Appear to Be Acting as a Cognitive Virus Among Humans
AI's wide proliferation shares some striking similarities with the ways viruses spread, as an international team of researchers argue.
I Built an LLM From Scratch
How Do We Talk about LLMs?
By Jim Clifford It is never fun to watch friends argue. Generative AI has created multiple fractures across our universities and the community of historians. The stakes are high and we are all deal…
LLM Agents are simply Graph — Tutorial For Dummies
Ever wondered how AI agents actually work behind the scenes?
LLM Agents are simply Graph — Tutorial For Dummies
Ever wondered how AI agents actually work behind the scenes?
1/4 Do LLMs understand? "They understand in a way that’s very different from how humans understand," Dileep George, @dileeplearning.bsky.social, of Google DeepMind at the Simons Institute workshop on The Future of Language Models and Transformers. Video: simons.berkeley.edu/talks/dileep-george-google-de…
