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Can GPT-6 Astra really read neural network weights? What the MIT 'weight-space programming' post showed, and what it didn't
MIT CSAIL researchers say OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra can identify what small networks do from their raw weights and edit a Qwen model to fix its math. The headline result, a jump from 7.9% to 48.1% on MATH-500, came from Python tooling and 50 forward passes, not from reading raw weights. Here's what each setup showed.