Study questions LLMs' ability to read neural net weights

A paper says GPT-6 Astra can directly inspect and edit small-network weights, notably improving a 0.8B Qwen model's math. A critic argues human researchers could do the same tasks and that labeled input channels make the results far less superhuman than claimed.

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