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Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess

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695 points crescit_eundo | 1 comments | 14 Nov 24 17:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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fires10 ◴[15 Nov 24 11:52 UTC] No.42146086[source]▶
Recognize and hand over to a specialist engine? That might be useful for AI. Maybe I am missing something.
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1. scott_w ◴[15 Nov 24 15:06 UTC] No.42147558[source]▶
If I was sold a general AI problem solving system, I’d feel ripped off if I learned that I needed to build my own problem solver and hook it up after I’d paid my money…