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Some early connectionist research included work that could now be described as interpretability research.

Tom McGrath · Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath · 2 Sep 2026

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“To expand on that a little bit, I guess historically a lot of the early connectionists, well maybe this depends on where you want to start as early,”
“but there was a surprising amount of sort of things that work that if it was done now might be called interpretability. Like if you look at the initial pay from like...”
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