>The whole premise on which the immense valuations of these AI companies is based on is that they are learning general reasoning skills from their training on language.
And they do, just not always in the ways we expect.
>This whole premise crashes and burns if you need task-specific training, like explicit chess training.
Everyone needs task specific training. Any human good at chess or anything enough to make it a profession needs it. So I have no idea why people would expect any less for a Machine.
>then we have to accept that they can't learn, say, to sell business software unless they include business software pitches in the training set, and there are going to be FAR fewer of those than chess games.
Yeah so ? How much business pitches they need in the training set has no correlation with chess. I don't see any reason to believe what is already present isn't enough. There's enough chess data on the internet to teach them chess too, it's just a matter of how much open AI care about it.
Chess is a very simple game, and having basic general reasoning skills is more than enough to learn how to play it. It's not some advanced mathematics or complicated human interaction - it's a game with 30 or so fixed rules. And chess manuals have numerous examples of actual chess games, it's not like they are pure text talking about the game.
So, the fact that LLMs can't learn this sample game despite probably including all of the books ever written on it in their training set tells us something about their general reasoning skills.
And they do, just not always in the ways we expect.
>This whole premise crashes and burns if you need task-specific training, like explicit chess training.
Everyone needs task specific training. Any human good at chess or anything enough to make it a profession needs it. So I have no idea why people would expect any less for a Machine.
>then we have to accept that they can't learn, say, to sell business software unless they include business software pitches in the training set, and there are going to be FAR fewer of those than chess games.
Yeah so ? How much business pitches they need in the training set has no correlation with chess. I don't see any reason to believe what is already present isn't enough. There's enough chess data on the internet to teach them chess too, it's just a matter of how much open AI care about it.