## The AI That Learned to Understand Long After It Stopped Trying A small, strange discovery in machine learning called grokking In 2022, a small team of researchers ran an experiment that should have been unremarkable. They trained a tiny neural network, far smaller than anything that gets called "AI" today, on one of the simplest tasks imaginable: modular addition, basically clock math. What is 8 plus 7 if the clock only goes up to 12? The answer is 3. The network learned this almost immediately. Within a thousand training steps it was answering every practice question correctly. Then the…