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OpenAI beats Elon Musk's Grok in AI chess tournament (www.bbc.com)
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[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"Up until the semi finals, it seemed like nothing would be able to stop Grok 4 on its way to winning the event," Pedro Pinhata, a writer for Chess.com, said in its coverage. "Despite a few moments of weakness, X's AI seemed to be by far the strongest chess player... But the illusion fell through on the last day of the tournament." He said Grok's "unrecognizable" and "blundering" play enabled o3 to claim a succession of "convincing wins".

I think the main takeaway is that these models are fundamentally inconsistent, and you can never assume they’re going to be reliable based on past performance.

[–] bigfondue@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And they'd both get destroyed by StockFish

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

No idea what the point of this tournament was.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Getting attention.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 8 points 1 month ago

D*ck measuring contest.

[–] kometes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Special Olympics

[–] hanabatake@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Fun, IA helps human players explore new ideas, games allow researchers to observe their IA interactions in other settings …

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

or they are matchup dependent based on the strategies they were trained on.