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AI systems are teaching themselves skills that they weren't expected to have.

How this happens is not well understood.

For example, one Google AI program adapted on its own

after it was prompted in the language of Bangladesh,

which it was not trained to know.

We discovered that with very few amounts of prompting in Bengali,

it can now translate all of Bengali.

So now, all of a sudden, we now have a research effort

where we now trying to get to a thousand languages.

There is an aspect of this which we call... all of us in the field call it as a "black box."

You know, you don't fully understand.

And you can't quite tell why it said this or why it got wrong.

We have some ideas, and our ability to understand this gets better over time,

but that's where the state of the art is.

You don't fully understand how it works?

And yet you've turned it loose on society?

Let me put it this way.

I don't think we fully understand how a human mind works either.