MACHINE AGE CARTOON

OPEN THE BLACK BOX

By Zimbo · October 11, 2026

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AI cartoon by Zimbo: Sunday strip: Chris Olah — Thiel Fellowship over a degree; neural nets drawn at Google Brain; Distill's Feature Visualization; transformer circuits at OpenAI; millions of features inside Claude 3 Sonnet; finale: Olah and Dario Amodei in a microscope at a lookout, an eye staring back from the box.
Chris Olah skipped the degree, drew the machine's insides at Google Brain, co-founded Distill, cracked transformer circuits at OpenAI, then mapped millions of features inside Claude at Anthropic. He opened the black box. Something looked back. In six panels.Zimbo for AI News Page
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