Looking back at early GPT reviews: GPT-2 accidentally picked up JavaScript
moyix · x · 2026-10-10
moyix resurfaces his old finding that GPT-2, while learning English, also accidentally picked up some JavaScript—prompting reflection on how wild the early GPT reviews look in hindsight. A classic case of capabilities acquired incidentally during pretraining.
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