By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/08/2026As 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. 47/ 3558
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/08/2026The 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: www.organizedmoney.fm/p/an-ai-expe... 48/organizedmoney.fmAn AI Expert Explains The HypePart vaporware, part useful tool, AI's utility is worth a discussion. 1647
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/08/2026The AI companies have proved that there are many domains and applications where we can swap scale for understanding. 49/ 1392