• Pamasich
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    116 days ago

    Isn’t the Atari just a game console, not a chess engine?

    Like, Wikipedia doesn’t mention anything about the Atari 2600 having a built-in chess engine.

    If they were willing to run a chess game on the Atari 2600, why did they not apply the same to ChatGPT? There are custom GPTs which claim to use a stockfish API or play at a similar level.

    Like this, it’s just unfair. Both platforms are not designed to deal with the task by themselves, but one of them is given the necessary tooling, the other one isn’t. No matter what you think of ChatGPT, that’s not a fair comparison.

    • @[email protected]
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      416 days ago

      GPTs which claim to use a stockfish API

      Then the actual chess isn’t LLM. If you are going stockfish, then the LLM doesn’t add anything, stockfish is doing everything.

      The whole point is the marketing rage is that LLMs can do all kinds of stuff, doubling down on this with the branding of some approaches as “reasoning” models, which are roughly “similar to ‘pre-reasoning’, but forcing use of more tokens on disposable intermediate generation steps”. With this facet of LLM marketing, the promise would be that the LLM can “reason” itself through a chess game without particular enablement. In practice, people trying to feed in gobs of chess data to an LLM end up with an LLM that doesn’t even comply to the rules of the game, let alone provide reasonable competitive responses to an oppone.