Google Surprised When Experimental AI Learns Language It Was Never Trained On

Like a human possessed, Google's artificial intelligence appears to know things it shouldn't -- and yeah, it's freaking us out. In an interview with CBS' 60 Minutes, Google tech exec James Manyika admitted that the company's AI had somehow learned a language on which it had not been trained. "We discovered that with very few amounts of prompting in Bengali," Manyika said, "it can now translate all of Bengali." As CBS notes, these kinds of "emergent properties" are "mysterious" and continue to puzzle developers even as they become more and more common. One AI program spoke in a foreign language it was never trained to know.