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