OpenAI's GPT-2 secret life as a pawn star: Boffins discover talkative machine-learning model can play chess

OpenAI's GPT-2 secret life as a pawn star: Boffins discover talkative machine-learning model can play chess

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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/10/gpt2_chess/

GPT-2, OpenAI’s giant text-generating language model, can play chess – despite having no prior knowledge of the game’s rules.

That may seem pretty odd, at first. The system is mostly well-known for spitting out passages of text after receiving a sentence or two as a prompt, after all.