AI developers discover ‘Donald Trump neuron’, expert says [Video]

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, …