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bigstrat2003today at 12:04 AM2 repliesview on HN

> Frontier labs don't care about chess. If OpenAI cared, GPT-7 could be a grandmaster+ level chess player.

If the models were actually intelligent, the way that the boosters claim, they wouldn't need to be tuned to play chess in order to be good at it. That's kind of the point of intelligence, that it is generically applicable to whichever task one wishes.


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skydhashtoday at 12:21 AM

Pretty much this. Feed it a book or two on chess, and you should have a decent (or good) player. That's the generic intelligence people have. The aims is not to be supremely talented at something, but being able to read a manual and figure how to use/play something. Mastery can be gained overtime.

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famouswafflestoday at 12:44 AM

If humans were actually intelligent, they wouldn't need to train and practice to play good chess. I mean, what level do you think people without any practice or training are ?

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