Ai guys have re-invented the Mechanical Turk, but the twist is it's really bad at chess. - ThreadSky

misterabk.bsky.social • 13 days ago

Ai guys have re-invented the Mechanical Turk, but the twist is it's really bad at chess.

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Fun fact: Amazon has had a product named Mechanical Turk for many years, which was unashamedly what it says on the tin.

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

johnthescot.bsky.social•13 days ago

AI is currently an adolescent, given time it will grow into a master.

nickoctopus.bsky.social•13 days ago

in a curious coincidence, techbros prefer their AI gfs to appear as adolescents. weirdest thing

bethanyblack.bsky.social•13 days ago

It’s like you’re rewriting all my gags from the last few years right now and showing me how crappy I am at doing them 😂

misterabk.bsky.social•13 days ago

Oh no! Like an LLM, I've read all your posts and now I'm regurgitating them without any understanding or royalties.

jamescalbraith.co.uk•13 days ago

Bissshlp to Z51

guanolad.bsky.social•13 days ago

Sometimes it's a man hiding in a box.

gfkvht.bsky.social•13 days ago

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danwoody.bsky.social•13 days ago

Three Bean Salad's Ancient Roman version of Alexa fits as well. It was a box of slaves called Alexus

jackgroundhog.bsky.social•13 days ago

Would you believe the Mechanical Welshman?

navalairhistory.com•13 days ago

Also it has to steal everyone else's chess sets just to be bad at chess

lairddinnaken.bsky.social•13 days ago

So finally I understand what pwned means…I think 🤔

navalairhistory.com•13 days ago

Oh very good 😁

devore.bsky.social•13 days ago

Humans havent beaten AI at chess in like, 5 years or more.

Please dont conflate Gen AI with actually useful AI. 😂😂

misterabk.bsky.social•13 days ago

I know, it was an analogy.

gralefrit.bsky.social•13 days ago

The Mechanical Turd

thebeardidlady.bsky.social•13 days ago

The Mechanical Berk

I know it doesn't look right, but the pronunciation makes it so. Almost.

goofygoober.ca•13 days ago

They messed up on the generation and its actually just a Mechanic named Turk who plays you at chess.

gurufoxx.bsky.social•13 days ago

It has an unexpected hidden function: translating Chinese in tiny rooms.

drdoomgrumps.bsky.social•13 days ago

Is it good at Noughts and Crosses?

nick.aetheric-games.com•13 days ago

Ha! I know it's a joke but like... O&X/tictactoe is, in game-dev-ai-coding, a completely solved, trivial problem. Alan Turing could've coded it before breakfast. Ada Lovelace could've whipped it up out of punchcards and string. Can an LLM do it reliably? I'm not going to check, but indubitably "no".

amicableanimal.bsky.social•13 days ago

My favourite version of this is that you can get reliably beaten/pulled to a draw by matchboxes and a little bit of time:

https://youtu.be/R9c-_neaxeU

nick.aetheric-games.com•13 days ago

neat!

hangrydad.bsky.social•13 days ago

I've just tried this on ChatGPT, and it missed an obvious move, thus letting me win, but also kept the game going until we'd filled the board. 🤦

jennymckinnon.bsky.social•13 days ago

and it’s name is Michael Truk

mindesthaltbar.bsky.social•13 days ago

Yes Amazon's click work platform is literally named that!

golpeadordelgnomo.bsky.social•12 days ago

From the same people 'The Electric Bishop'
and his sidekick, 'Electric Boy'.

twelveothirteen.bsky.social•13 days ago

Although this is true, and *very* funny, I wanna add something.
"AI" chess bots have surpassed "regular" chess bots since 2018.
(I harbour a deep hate for AI guys and their tools, but have been interested in machine learning for more than a decade)

robinjohnson.bsky.social•13 days ago

Sorry, we stole the word "AI" too.

duckrabbitpro.bsky.social•13 days ago

Have you *seen* those Boston Dynamics vuds of a robot *fLiPpInG ThAt bOaRd*??? 😱😱😱

rhystimson.bsky.social•13 days ago

Disappointed I can like this only once

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