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[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 68 points 1 day ago

Grok was thrown off by being assigned the black pieces for the match.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 57 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"Grok then generated an image of a chess board being flipped over and complained "I only lost because the JEWS own chess!" Elon Musk could not be reached for comment as he's currently lost in a K hole."

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago

I can’t tell if this is satire or

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago

I came to say something about it flipping over the table.

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day 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 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And they'd both get destroyed by StockFish

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

No idea what the point of this tournament was.

[–] kometes@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Special Olympics

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Getting attention.

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

D*ck measuring contest.

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

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

[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 2 points 16 hours ago

In a formal response from Musk he said nothing meaningful.

[–] RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago

"I got winner."

--Atari 2600, probably

[–] Repelle@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I haven’t tried in a while, but shortly after gpt4 came out I tried to play chess against it. It just completely changed the board position nearly every move making illegal moves, adding pieces etc. do current models keep track of the board and make legal moves without special prompting to help? Were these assisted by agentic tools handling state?

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Meh... Robot Wars is better...

[–] SugarCatDestroyer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

What useful information... It helped me so much in real life and to hell with it all lol.

[–] m3t00@piefed.world 1 points 22 hours ago