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Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess

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688 points crescit_eundo | 1 comments | 14 Nov 24 17:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.23s | source
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niobe ◴[15 Nov 24 00:40 UTC] No.42142885[source]▶
I don't understand why educated people expect that an LLM would be able to play chess at a decent level.

It has no idea about the quality of it's data. "Act like x" prompts are no substitute for actual reasoning and deterministic computation which clearly chess requires.

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motoboi ◴[15 Nov 24 13:02 UTC] No.42146513[source]▶
I suppose you didn't get the news, but google developed a LLM that can play chess. And play it at grandmaster level: https://arxiv.org/html/2402.04494v1
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1. suddenlybananas ◴[15 Nov 24 13:07 UTC] No.42146547[source]▶
That article isn't as impressive as it sounds: https://gist.github.com/yoavg/8b98bbd70eb187cf1852b3485b8cda...

In particular, it is not an LLM and it is not trained solely on observations of chess moves.