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Language models can't play chess, right?♟️ Excited to share our latest experiment that let's you play chess against a Gemini model!
Eric Malmi
@ericmalmi
Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, building Gemini | Adjunct Professor @AaltoUniversity
- if you're at #icml2025, come check out our spotlight poster on "Mastering Board Games by External and Internal Planning with Language Models" ♟️ 📜: arxiv.org/abs/2412.12119 ⏲️: Wed 16 Jul 11 am - 1:30 pm PDT 📍: East Exhibition Hall A-B #E-2508 demo: goo.gle/ChessChamp
- thank you for the recognition @GaryMarcus! there's room for improvement, but I find it quite remarkable that an LLM learns to play creative sacrifices like this (best move according to Stockfish)Replying to @cfchabris@ericmalmi has kind of done that and it does pretty well except in weird positions - where it still sometimes make illegal moves. Confirming your conjecture and mine, if I understand his results correctly. arxiv.org/pdf/2412.12119…
- multiple long-time dreams coming true at once: ✅ give a talk at NeurIPS ♟️ play chess on a stage 🤡 make my international debut as a rapper thanks to the audience for a lively discussion that went on for a good hour after the talk and to my amazing co-presenters @anianruoss
- if you're at #NeurIPS2024, want to learn how to make LLMs really good at chess and see a live demo, come and visit the @GoogleDeepMind booth tomorrow at 9:30 am!
