📝 TL;DR Google DeepMind just released Gemma Scope 2, a giant open toolkit that lets researchers peek inside how its Gemma 3 models actually think. It is being called the largest open interpretability release so far, focused on making powerful AI models more transparent and safer to use. 🧠 Overview Gemma Scope 2 is a new suite of tools that works across the full Gemma 3 model family, from tiny 270M models up to 27B parameters. It lets researchers and safety teams inspect what is going on in the “brain” of the model, not just its final answer on screen. The goal is to help the AI safety community understand complex behaviors like jailbreaks, scams, or hidden reasoning so we can build more trustworthy AI systems. 📜 The Announcement Google DeepMind announced Gemma Scope 2 as an open, comprehensive interpretability suite for Gemma 3. They describe it as the largest open source style release of interpretability tools from any AI lab so far, built using a huge amount of data and trained parameters. The release includes model artifacts, documentation, and interactive demos so external researchers can study safety relevant behaviors in modern language models. ⚙️ How It Works • Think of it as an AI microscope - Gemma Scope 2 uses sparse autoencoders and “transcoders” to break down internal activations into human interpretable features, so you can see what concepts a model is focusing on as it responds. • Full coverage for Gemma 3 - The tools cover every layer of all Gemma 3 model sizes, which matters because many weird or dangerous behaviors only show up in larger models. • New training tricks - It uses advanced methods like Matryoshka style training so the features it finds are cleaner and more meaningful, improving on the first Gemma Scope release. • Chatbot behavior analysis - There are special tools tuned for chat models so you can inspect things like jailbreak attempts, refusal behavior, and whether the model’s inner reasoning matches the explanation it gives you.

In reference to the AI world, we heard about Prompt Engineering, which of course it is important, because you need to know what questions/prompts to ask ChatGPT. This morning I read a post about something new (at least to me, the newbie) Context Engineering. Has anybody some thoughts to share about this? Many thanks!

Robert Herjavec has said that data infrastructure will be the third wave of AI. Curious what people here think?

As a business owner and agency owner who educates people in my local community about AI (through the library and small businesses), I wanted to share a few ways that I have discovered that people can implement AI without feeling overwhelmed. The suggestions that I am giving below aren't to say you have to incorporate them all, but just pick one or two and as you get comfortable, incorporate a few more that make sense for your business... - You can use ChatGPT as your partner to run ideas by- analyze your strategy, challenge your approach, assist you in identifying your target audience if you are just getting started. Use the "voice" mode and ask it to ask you challenging questions to get to the core issue you are having based on the topic and it will transcribe the conversation on the back end so you will always have it. - You could create an app through vibe coding that holds your SOPs or Training information (nothing confidential or proprietary) so new people joining your team can learn from that tool vs. you or a team member having to take the time to train them (instead, you can question what they learned afterwards or have AI create a flash-card or memory based quiz, crossword, etc. to test their knowledge in fun/creative ways) - You can include a web chatbot on the home page of your website to answer questions about your business and even schedule appointments - You can reinvigorate your email list by having ChatGPT come up with creative email campaigns per quarter that are 75% educational (about your industry or business) and 25% Calls to Action for Sales so they don't feel like you are consistently selling. Ask AI what perks you can offer your customers (like birthday discounts for their birthday month or referral rewards). If you use a platform like GHL, you can set everything up with automations on a quarterly basis as well. - You could get a voice concierge agent that works 24/7 and never misses a call if you are a business that could benefit from that. They sound human, and their knowledge-base knows everything about your company and website and it can answer most questions and book appointments if connected correctly to your calendar. - You could use AI to create presentations for you. I am speaking at an AI Summit next year, and I put the information I wanted to talk about in Claude, then asked it to fill in any gaps about AI I might have overlooked or missed that would be important to cover for that audience and asked it to put it into more of a "TedTalk" type format...then once I liked the result, I took it to the presentation creation app (Gamma) and in about 50 seconds, I had the full presentation with images and graphs completed. Game Changer!