This article buries the lede so much that many readers probably miss it completely: the important takeaway here, which is clearer in The Register's version of the story, is that ChatGPT cannot actually play chess:

“Despite being given a baseline board layout to identify pieces, ChatGPT confused rooks for bishops, missed pawn forks, and repeatedly lost track of where pieces were."

To actually use an LLM as a chess engine without the kind of manual intervention that this person did, you would need to combine it with some other software to automate continuing to ask it for a different next move every time it suggests an invalid one. And, if you did that, it would still mostly lose, even to much older chess engines than Atari's Video Chess.

edit: i see now that numerous people have done this; you can find many websites where you can "play chess against chatgpt" (which actually means: with chatgpt and also some other mechanism to enforce the rules). and if you know how to play chess you should easily win :)

Chat, is this real?

yes.

and we're seeing it now because two days ago he wrote a long tweet (something only people who pay for twitter can do) musing about why so many people have been failing to understand that he was joking for the last eight years.

The Russian trolls are working overtime to justify military action against American people at the objection of the governor and mayor.

For sure, the American people could never be ignorant xenophobic bigots like that on their own, it must be foreigners influencing them and/or posting those comments!

lol, ok, i see. TIL

someone reported this comment with the report reason "Anti-AI Trolling in an AI friendly community"

What makes this an AI-friendly community? I just read the sidebar and don't see anything about AI.

I do see however that this community's list of rules includes this peculiar pair:

• Only post socialist memes
• Don't idolize/glorify previous and current socialist experiments or (leading) individuals.

🤔

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_while_John_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_a_better_effect_on_the_teacher

this is a tweet from 2020: https://xcancel.com/CianMW/status/1267890378276876288

but, the organization which operates that hotline is still active: https://girightshotline.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GI_Rights_Network

Ah, this is jogging my memory:

HyperCard 1.x was given away as a standard item with the purchase of a new Mac Plus, SE, or II. This was the key to HyperCard’s early success. HyperCard 2.x had to be purchased separately. However, Apple made and gave out HyperCard Player, a freeware application that allowed one to run HyperCard stacks.

But yeah, HyperStudio was something else entirely (HyperCard-inspired but not compatible).

HyperCard was basically the viewer/player for HyperCard stacks/files. HyperStudio was the program used to make them.

This is incorrect. The HyperCard application could both create and play back HyperCard stacks. It could also export them as stand-alone applications which people could use without needing to run HyperCard.

I should admit that it’s been years since I messed around with old Macintosh or looked into the old Mac retro sites, it’s probably out there somewhere…

You can use HyperCard on an emulated Mac in a web browser at https://system7.app/ - it's in the Multimedia folder there :)

because this is firmly in poe's law territory, i searched for "pibmow" which returned a wikipedia article for something called "pribnow box" which i figured was a set top streaming appliance, from which (until clicking it) i briefly inferred that everything in this post was real.