I forgot which airline it is but one of the onboard games in the back of a headrest TV was a game called “Beginners Chess” which was notoriously difficult to beat so it was tested against other chess engines and it ranked in like the top five most powerful chess engines ever
Objection@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Tbf, the article should probably mention the fact that machine learning programs designed to play chess blow everything else out of the water.
Zenith@lemm.ee 1 week ago
andallthat@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Machine learning has existed for many years, now. The issue is with these funding-hungry new companies taking their LLMs, repackaging them as “AI” and attributing every ML win ever to “AI”.
Yes, ML programs designed and trained specifically to identify tumors in medical imaging have become good diagnostic tools. But if you read in news that “AI helps cure cancer”, it makes it sound like a bunch of researchers just spent a few minutes engineering the right prompt for Copilot.
That’s why, yes a specifically-designed and finely tuned ML program can now beat the best human chess player, but calling it “AI” and bundling it together with the latest Gemini or Claude iteration is intentionally misleading.
bier@feddit.nl 1 week ago
Yeah its like judging how great a fish is at climbing a tree. But it does show that it’s not real intelligence or reasoning
13igTyme@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Don’t call my fish stupid.
Venator@lemmy.nz 1 week ago
Well, can it climb trees?