No one actually knows why AI works

[Mindy]

Alberta Tech
May 17, 2025

No one really knows how generative AI works. Here's how researchers working on AI interpretability are figuring it out.

Chapters
0:00 What we don't know about AI
1:42 What we do know about AI
3:15 Emergent capabilities 
5:12 Building ≠ understanding
6:23 Interpretability research - golden gate claude
7:32 Interpretability research - circuits
8:31 Who cares?
10:11 Sorry this wasn't a skit :/