About

The Visible Net is a blogging outlet for the “Academic Contingent” of mechanistic interpretability machine intelligence researchers, as well as an incubation space for the proposed National Deep Inference Facility. It is a shared blogging space for students, collaborators, and others working on mechanistic interpretability.

This project was started by David Bau, an assistant professor at Northeastern University. David’s lab focuses on understanding the interpretable mechanisms that emerge from large-scale machine learning.

The horizontal lightbulb depiction represents the emergence of ideas in a transparent setting where the internal mechanisms can all be inspected. The bulb is alight without an apparent energy source, suggesting the emergence of cognitive structure from data without explicit design.