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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: 0.208s | source
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chvid ◴[15 Nov 24 05:55 UTC] No.42144283[source]▶
Theory 5: GPT-3.5-instruct plays chess by calling a traditional chess engine.
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1. wibwobble12333 ◴[16 Nov 24 15:39 UTC] No.42156924[source]▶
Occam’s razor. I could build a good chess playing wrapper around OpenAPI (any version) that would consult a chess engine when presented with any board scenario, and introduce some randomness so that it doesn’t play too well.

I can’t imagine any programmer in this thread would be entertaining a more complicated scenario than this. You can substitute chess for any formal system that has a reliable oracle.