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Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess

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688 points crescit_eundo | 2 comments | 14 Nov 24 17:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.529s | source
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swiftcoder ◴[15 Nov 24 07:57 UTC] No.42144784[source]▶
I feel like the article neglects one obvious possibility: that OpenAI decided that chess was a benchmark worth "winning", special-cases chess within gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct, and then neglected to add that special-case to follow-up models since it wasn't generating sustained press coverage.
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scott_w ◴[15 Nov 24 11:10 UTC] No.42145811[source]▶
I suspect the same thing. Rather than LLMs “learning to play chess,” they “learnt” to recognise a chess game and hand over instructions to a chess engine. If that’s the case, I don’t feel impressed at all.
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gamerDude ◴[15 Nov 24 12:43 UTC] No.42146383[source]▶
This is exactly what I feel AI needs. A manager AI that then hands off things to specialized more deterministic algorithms/machines.
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1. criley2 ◴[15 Nov 24 12:45 UTC] No.42146397[source]▶
Basically what Wolfram Alpha rolled out 15 years ago.

It was impressive then, too.

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2. waffletower ◴[15 Nov 24 20:05 UTC] No.42150365[source]▶
It is good to see other people buttressing Stephen Wolfram's ego. It is extraordinarily heavy work and Stephen can't handle it all by himself.