The idea that launched @GoodfireAI🔥

When ChatGPT launched, most people were blinded by the possibilities. Eric Ho saw the risk it posed.

"I kind of saw the next few years unfold before me, where we were about to get increasingly powerful models ... massive amounts of compute, massive amounts of intelligence, but we wouldn't understand at all how this intelligence would actually work."

Most models operate as a black box. Users can see the output, but they can't reliably see how the model reached it, why it behaved in a certain way, or whether it will behave the same way again next time. With how quickly AI is being deployed into mission-critical environments, Eric wanted to do something to ensure AI models are functioning as intended.

In a new video interview with Emily Zhao, Eric explained his aim behind founding Goodfire: to build the science and technology needed to understand AI from the inside out.