Zygi Straznickas

There’s this popular trope in fiction about a character being mind controlled without losing awareness of what’s happening. Think Jessica Jones, The Manchurian Candidate or Bioshock. The villain uses some magical technology to take control of your brain - but only the part of your brain that’s responsible for motor...

This is a cross-post for our paper on fluent dreaming for language models. (arXiv link.) Dreaming, aka "feature visualization," is a interpretability approach popularized by DeepDream that involves optimizing the input of a neural network to maximize an internal feature like a neuron's activation. We adapt dreaming to language models....