We Don't Understand Neural Networks At The Algorithmic Level

The largest ongoing debate about AI is “ Are Large Language Models (LLMs) intelligent? ” That makes sense, at least: the evidence is ambiguous and the stakes are high. Far more confusing is the disagreement on whether we understand LLMs - how can scientists studying a topic not broadly agree on how much we know about it? Yet respected academics have conflicting opinions, and it is worth seeing…