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Re:Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Ka... by cousin_it on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @07:29AM (#50351193)
I'll go out on a limb and say that future AI models, running on today's smartphones, will be better at programming and formal math than today's frontier models running in datacenters. And by "future" I mean less than 5 years from now, almost certainly.
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Re:Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Ka... by echelon on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @07:45AM (#50351344)
No way. The parameter count can't fit on consumer devices, and you're not getting orders of magnitude smarter behavior with smaller models.
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Re:Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Ka... by 0-_-0 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:30AM (#50351747)
In 5 years phones can easily have 1 TB flash
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Re:Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Ka... by RetroTechie on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:55AM (#50352021)
Parameter count is basically storage. Including persistent like flash memory. Which (still) is subject to Moore's law.

That's discounting architectural innovations & improvements which are bound to happen somehow.

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