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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
doctorow.pluralistic.net
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The first conventional chess-playing programs ran on electromechanical proto-computers, and they played a better game of chess than an LLM that uses *billions* of times more computing power and energy:
https://www.organizedmoney.fm/p/an-ai-expert-explains-the-hype
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