> Very few are trying to understand why things are working
What is in question is why this is given so little attention. You can hear Neel talk about this himself. It is the reason he is trying to rally people and get more into Mech Interp. Which frankly, this side of ML is as old as ML itself.
Personal, I believe that if you aren't trying to interpret results and ask the why then you're not actually doing science. Which is fine. There's plenty of good things that come from outside science. I just think it's weird to call something science if you aren't going to do hypothesis testing and finding out why things are the way they are
Personal, I believe that if you aren't trying to interpret results and ask the why then you're not actually doing science. Which is fine. There's plenty of good things that come from outside science. I just think it's weird to call something science if you aren't going to do hypothesis testing and finding out why things are the way they are