Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess

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.

> I don't understand why educated people expect that an LLM would be able to play chess at a decent level.

The blog post demonstrates that a LLM plays chess at a decent level.

The blog post explains why. It addresses the issue of data quality.

I don't understand what point you thought you were making. Regardless of where you stand, the blog post showcases a surprising result.

You stress your prior unfounded belief, you were presented with data that proves it wrong, and your reaction was to post a comment with a thinly veiled accusation of people not being educated when clearly you are the one that's off.

To make matters worse, this topic is also about curiosity. Which has a strong link with intelligence and education. And you are here criticizing others on those grounds in spite of showing your defitic right at the first sentence.

This blog post was a great read. Very surprising, engaging, and thought provoking.

The only service performing well is a closed source one that could simply use a real chess engine for questions that look like chess, for marketing purposes. There’s nothing thought provoking about a bunch of engineers doing “experiments” against a service, other than how sad it is to debase themselves in this way.