AI

Yesterday at lunch a friend asked me what tech trend he should pay attention to but was probably ignoring. Without thinking much I said “artificial intelligence”, but having thought about that a...

Sam Altman

> (I originally was going to say a computer that plays chess, but computers play chess with no intuition or instinct--they just search a gigantic solution space very quickly.)

Isn't that how LLM models are trained right now? Trying to predict the next word within a "gigantic solution space". Interesting.

Which even shows Sam has no idea about AI, as the best chess engine at that point in time Komodo 8 was trained and developed primarily through the efforts of GM Larry Kaufman and Mark Lefler, focusing on refining the engine's evaluation function and search accuracy rather than relying on deep, brute-force calculation.

The reference to pong makes even less sense.