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Re:OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now by Sharlin on Friday November 22, 2024 @05:34AM (#42212651)
Trying to appropriate perfectly well generalizable terms as "something that only humans do" brings zero value to a conversation. It's a "god in the gaps" argument, essentially, and we don't exactly have a great track record of correctly identifying things that are uniquely human.
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Re:OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now by fao_ on Friday November 22, 2024 @06:45AM (#42213028)
There's very literally currently a whole wealth of papers proving that LLMs do not understand, cannot reason, and cannot perform basic kinds of reasoning that even a dog can perform. But, ok.
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Re:OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now by TeMPOraL on Friday November 22, 2024 @07:13AM (#42213188)
There's very literally currently a whole wealth of papers proving the opposite, too, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
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Re:OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now by wizzwizz4 on Friday November 22, 2024 @01:16PM (#42216100)
There's a whole wealth of papers proving that LLMs do not understand the concepts they write about. That doesn't mean they don't understand grammar – which (as I've claimed since the GPT-2 days) we should, theoretically, expect them to "understand". And what is chess, but a particularly sophisticated grammar?
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