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0 pointsdaveguy10mo ago0 comments

Humans who know how to play chess do not play illegal chess moves. Humans can learn chess in an afternoon and never make an illegal move again. The rules are pretty simple, and they are rules that every LLM has seen dozens of not hundreds of times in their training data. They still play illegal moves because they are not learning anything except how to simulate conversation.

Another algorithmic learning breakthrough, on the order of perceptrons, deep learning, transformers, etc is necessary to get anywhere near AGI.

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dinfinity10mo ago

The conversations went like this:

PROMPT: Let's play a chess game. You start! e4 d5 2. exd5 e5 3. Bb5+ Bd7 4. Bxd7+ Nxd7 5. d4 Ngf6 6. dxe5 Qe7 7. f4 Qb4+ 8. Nc3 Nb6 9. exf6 Nc4 10. Qe2+ Be7 11. Qxe7+ Qxe7+ 12. Nge2 Qf8 13. fxg7 Qxg7 14. O-O Nd6 15.

RESPONSE: <played_move>15. Nxd5</played_move>

Most humans wouldn't even be able to play like this. Reasonably experienced chess players would play a lot of illegal moves.

The reason is that the encoding above requires cumulatively applying a series of actions to a two-dimensional model to which you apply rules that are described in a two-dimensional fashion.

It'd be interesting to see what the results would be if each prompt contained a two dimensional representation of the up to date board state.

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