🧩 Philosophy 11h ago · Sean Herrington

Stockfish is not a chess superintelligence (and it doesn't need to be)

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Stockfish is not a chess superintelligence (and it doesn't need to be)
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TLDR: I demonstrate Stockfish is not a chess superintelligence in the sense of understanding the game better than all humans in all situations. It still kicks our ass. In the same way, AI may end up not dominating us in all fields but still kick our ass in a fight for control of the future.Stockfish is good at chess. Like, really good. It has an elo rating of 3700, over 800 points higher than the human record of 2882, giving it theoretical 100-1 odds against Magnus Carlsen at his peak.[1]It come

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