alt Hacker NewsA couple decades of chess programs nods knowingly: "First time?"
Uh huh. Good luck getting Stockfish to do your math homework while Leela works on your next waifu.
LLMs play chess poorly. Chess engines do nothing else at all. That's kind of a big difference, wouldn't you say?
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gowld • last Friday at 8:44 PM
Terr_ was agreeing with you and highlighting how old the debate is.
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> That's kind of a big difference, wouldn't you say?
To their utility.
Not sure if it matters on the question "thinking?"; even if for the debaters "thinking" requires consciousness/qualia (and that varies), there's nothing more than guesses as to where that emerges from.