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David Bau is very familiar with the idea that computer systems are becoming so complicated it’s hard to keep track of how they operate. “I spent 20 years as a software engineer, working on really complex systems. And there’s always this problem,” says Bau, a computer scientist at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Nature 629, 986-988 (2024)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-01314-y
Correction 17 May 2024: An earlier version of this article contained an error in the box ‘False logic’. The explanation for the correct answer should have said B.
Grosse, R. et al. Preprint at arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2308.03296 (2023).
Li, K. et al. in Proc. Int. Conf. Learn. Represent. 2023 (ICLR, 2023); available at https://openreview.net/forum?id=DeG07_TcZvT
Hagendorff, T. Preprint at arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2303.13988 (2023).
Wei, J. et al. in Adv. Neural Inf. Process. Syst. 35 (eds Koyejo, S. et al.) 24824–24837 (Curran Associates, 2022); available at https://go.nature.com/3us888x
Turpin, M., Michael, J., Perez, E. & Bowman, S. R. Preprint at arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2305.04388 (2023).
Zou, A. et al. Preprint at arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.01405 (2023).
Meng, K., Sharma, A. S., Andonian, A. J., Belinkov, Y. & Bau, D. in Proc. Int. Conf. Learn. Represent. 2023 (ICLR, 2023); available at https://openreview.net/forum?id=MkbcAHIYgyS
Hase, P., Bansal, M., Kim, B. & Ghandeharioun, A. Preprint at arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2301.04213 (2023).
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Can we open the black box of AI? 
AI image generators often give racist and sexist results: can they be fixed? What causes migraines? Study of ‘brain blackout’ offers clues
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Ultra-detailed brain map shows neurons that encode words’ meaning
News
The cortical amygdala consolidates a socially transmitted long-term memory
Article
Inside the maths that drives AI
Technology Feature
AI machine translation tools must be taught cultural differences too
Correspondence
‘Fighting fire with fire’ — using LLMs to combat LLM hallucinations
News & Views
Inside the maths that drives AI
Technology Feature
Streamlined collaboration can boost CRISPR gene therapies for rare diseases
Correspondence
Bionic leg moves like a natural limb — without conscious thought
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