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SOMETHING WEIRD IS HAPPENING WITH LLMS AND CHESS

This post looks at different AI models' performance at playing chess. Almost all large language models (LLMs) are terrible at chess except gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct. It is unknown what is causing this, but it may be due to different training data, the quality of training data, the effects of instruction tuning, or there may be something particular about different transformer structures. This may explain why people got good results with LLMs and chess two years ago and why the field has been quiet since.

GOOGLE IS FACING THE THREAT OF GOVERNMENT REGULATORS SUPERVISING ITS FINANCIAL SERVICES

Google may soon be placed under formal federal supervision by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which is tasked with keeping financial institutions accountable to consumers. Google handles a lot of funds that it doesn't own and the CFPB has received hundreds of complaints over the years from consumers experiencing problems with billing through Google. Google has reportedly been pushing back as hard as it can against the inquiry as if things move forward, the bureau could gain unprecedented access to internal company records.

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