They trained it on millions of matches of the board game Othello by feeding in long sequences of moves in text form. Some of these systems' abilities go far beyond what they were trained to do—and even their inventors are baffled as to why.

We Don’t Know What We’re Doing by Thomas Morris review

They exist in the popular imagination as drab, deindustrialised zones of dead-end jobs and boarded-up high streets, where the schools are on the slide and the young people either get out or give up. It will answer scientific questions, I would say, better” than if you just ask it directly, without the special jailbreak prompt, says William Hahn, co-director of the Machine Perception and Cognitive Robotics Laboratory at Florida Atlantic University.The tonic comes in large doses in Thomas Morris's debut short-story collection, We Don't Know What We're Doing, set primarily in the Welsh town of Caerphilly. Scientific American maintains a strict policy of editorial independence in reporting developments in science to our readers.

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In 17 a teenager mourns his first love: "I'll put it this way: when we broke up, it felt like I lost thirty pints of blood. They are mostly young – teenagers to twentysomethings – and their listlessness says much about a society that has lost direction. In the AI field, the term “learning” is usually reserved for the computationally intensive process in which developers expose the neural network to gigabytes of data and tweak its internal connections. Another type of in-context learning happens via “chain of thought” prompting, which means asking the network to spell out each step of its reasoning—a tactic that makes it do better at logic or arithmetic problems requiring multiple steps.Li says he thinks the system learns this skill because it is the most parsimonious description of its training data.

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In Bolt, a gem of an opening story, the narrator, Andy, moves in with his girlfriend's mother when the girlfriend dumps him. As he capers around Caerphilly with his friends, getting arrested on drunken nights out, a brutally honest depiction of the ebb and flow of young romance underpins the antics. Other highlights include the Dublin stag-do hijinks of the brilliantly judged All the Boys, and Big Pit, in which the narrator’s sister is revealed to be as unstable as the gases that slowly gather in a coalmine. After her husband remortgages their home and absconds to Australia to find himself, Amy is caught between the demands of her ailing mother and her three children. Some people use jailbreaking for sketchy purposes, yet others deploy it to elicit more creative answers.But one thing that made Millière's example so surprising is that the network found the Fibonacci number without any such coaching. Instead he hypothesizes that the machine improvised a memory by harnessing its mechanisms for interpreting words according to their context—a situation similar to how nature repurposes existing capacities for new functions.