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Artificial intelligence (AI) recognizes images and the name of President-elect Donald Trump so much that the phenomenon is referred to as a « Donald Trump neuron, » expert Chris Olah says.
Olah, one of the co-founders of the AI lab « focused on the safety of large models » named Anthropic, according to his blog biography, appeared on the « Lex Fridman Podcast » released on Monday.
« There’s this really famous result on grandmother neurons or the Halle Berry neuron from Quiroga et al, » Olah said. « And we found very similar things in vision models, where this is while I was still at OpenAI, and I was looking at their clip model, and you find these neurons that respond to the same entities in images. And also, to give a concrete example there, we found that there was a Donald Trump neuron. »
« For some reason, I guess everyone likes to talk about Donald Trump. And Donald Trump was very prominent, was a very hot topic at that time. So, every neural network we looked at, we would find a dedicated neuron for Donald Trump. That was the only person who had always had a dedicated neuron. »
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The « Donald Trump neuron » is the recognition of images and the name Trump, according to one artificial intelligence expert. (Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket/CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP / Getty Images)
He continued to explain to Fridman that occasionally there would be a former President Barack Obama or former President Bill Clinton neuron, « but Trump always had a dedicated neuron, » adding that AI large language models respond to « pictures of his face and the word Trump. »
Olah was a guest in the episode with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. Anthropic created Claude, Fridman said, describing it as « one of the best AI systems in the world » in a post on X.
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The « Donald Trump neuron » was discussed during a recent « Lex Fridman Podcast » regarding AI. (Oliver Berg/picture alliance/Scott Olson / Getty Images)
President-elect Donald Trump speaks during an election night event at the Palm Beach Convention Center on Nov. 6, 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images / Getty Images)
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Amodei and Fridman’s conversation focused heavily on « scaling, AI safety, regulation, and a lot of super technical details about the present and future of AI and humanity, » he said, adding it was « a fascinating, wide-ranging, super-technical, and fun conversation! »
The full podcast episode can be seen here.
