Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Spivak 1190 days ago
I feel like we have very different expectations about what tools like this are good for and how to use them. When I say GPT3 can play chess what I mean is, I can build a chess playing automaton where the underlying decision making system is entirely powered by the LLm.

I, as the developer, am providing contextual information like what the current board state is, and what the legal moves are, but my code doesn't actually know anything about how to play chess, the Llm is doing all the "thinking."

Like it's nuts that people aren't more amazed that there's a piece of software that can function as a chess playing engine (and a good one) that was trained entirely generically.