The numbers were completely opaque and inscrutable to human eyes. But this strategy, they found, created “emergent advanced reasoning patterns” in the model.

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Rorschach tests play with the human imagination and our mind's ability to impart meaning onto the world around us – but what does AI see in them? For more than a century, the Rorschach inkblot ...

Ethel Cain is Inscrutable and Fascinating on Perverts The EP ruminates on distorted desires, but it’s also an exploration of drone and noise, a treatise on what it’s like to watch and be ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science in the 1960s as the coinventor of BASIC, a programming language that replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with ...