Editing Computer chess (section)

=== Chess and LLMs ===
While considered something done more for entertainment than for serious play, people have discovered that [[large language model]]s (LLMs) of the type created in 2018 and beyond such as [[GPT-3]] can be prompted into producing chess moves given proper language prompts.  While inefficient compared to native chess engines, the fact that LLMs can track the board state at all beyond the opening rather than simply recite chess-like phrases in a [[Hallucination (artificial intelligence)|dreamlike state]] was considered greatly surprising.  LLM play has a number of quirks compared to engine play; for example, engines don't generally "care" how a board state was arrived at.  However, LLMs seem to produce different quality moves for a chess position reached via strong play compared to the same board state produced via a set of strange preceding moves (which will generally produce weaker and more random moves).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dynomight.net/more-chess/ |title=OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now |date=November 21, 2024 }}</ref>