In this installment of AI Corner, Siadhal Magos, Metaview CEO, and Nolan Church dissect Anthropic's groundbreaking paper “Tracing the thoughts of a large language model” released on March 27, 2025. They explore surprising findings: LLMs plan ahead rather than simply predicting next tokens, think across multiple languages simultaneously, and often present explanations that satisfy humans rather than reflecting their actual reasoning processes.

The conversation highlights the paradox of developing powerful AI systems without understanding their workings, raising implications for deployment, safety, and the "intelligence on tap" paradigm reshaping our technological relationship. We should all be paying attention.

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LINKS:

Anthropic’s featured paper: https://www.anthropic.com/news/tracing-thoughts-language-model

Metaview: https://www.metaview.ai/

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TIMESTAMPS

(00:13) Intro

(00:45) Anthropic's Mind-Blowing Paper

(01:37) LLMs Think Across Languages

(02:04) Faked Reasoning in AI Models

(02:28) AI Hallucinations Explained

(03:00) First Paragraph Reveals Uncertainty

(05:18) Beyond Next Token Prediction

(07:23) Evaluating LLMs Without Understanding

(08:44) More Human Than Software

(10:05) Why You Should Experiment With AI

(11:13) The Airplane Analogy

(12:26) Safety Concerns for Future AI

(12:54) Sponsors: Planful | Metaview

(16:27) Dario Amodei on AI Self-Policing

(18:05) OpenAI's $300B Valuation

(19:33) Intelligence on Tap

(22:02) Retraining Google Habits

(24:35) Agentic AI & Reinforcement Learning

(27:15) Human Training for AI Models

(30:25) Wrap

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