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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
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As Gary Marcus describes in a recent *Organized Money* ep, an LLM can recite the rules of chess, but it can't *play* chess because - lacking a theory of how chess works - it will just emit statistically likely chess moves, even if those moves cause pieces to illegally move through other pieces.
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2026-08-22T01:38:23.487Z