By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/10/2026These are based on vast, multi-dimensional arrays constructed by analyzing the statistical relationships between every chess move in their training data. This yields a surprisingly good game of chess...until it doesn't. 1261
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/10/2026Because a theory-free statistical chess program doesn't "know" what a chessboard or a chess piece is and has no programmatic representation of the rules of chess, it will periodically move one of its pieces onto a square that is already occupied by another of its pieces. 1266
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/10/2026When theory-free AI does this with language or image generation, we call it an "hallucination," but this is an *extremely* misleading metaphor. 1284
