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by YeGoblynQueenne 1203 days ago
>> Yes, but this is (one of?) the first pieces of software that plays chess, without being programmed to do so.

Wasn't it? There are large databases of chess games recorded in textual format on the internet, and ChatGPT's language model was trained to reproduce text found on the internet.

Besides, I thought enthusiasm about large language models performing in tasks that they weren't directly trained on, peaked with BERT, back in 2018. I guess they just didn't hype it enough then so most people think it's something new. Or is that not the point?