GPT-4 almost beat me at chess today (specifying moves via algebraic notation). None of the previous text-completion AIs, including ChatGPT, could play chess at all, so this is a gigantic leap. It could also discuss the game, rewind moves, etc.
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Am I wrong in assuming this is the first time in history a non-learning system that wasn't specifically designed to play chess (no explicit game-tree search algorithms) could play the game well?
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It apparently knows how to play chess well simply from studying the probability patterns in past human discussions of chess.
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Can you post some screenshots of your prompts? I'm seeing a lot of variation in how good people say it is (at chess)
try asking it to treat the game as if it were a battle in the civil war and describe each move as an action by a unit or specific person. It works. It's kinda cool. I don't care that it can't play the game. Then ask it to treat each piece like a specific ninja move from naruto
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