Chess Computers
1. Chess Computers
1.1. 1. On Chess Computers
Chess computers are fucking perfect.
They excel at one singular thing and do it perfectly. The ideal chess computer is magnitudes better than every human could ever wish to be. They have one purpose in life and don't do anything else, yet nobody can even hope to beat them. When I'm talking about „chess computers“ I don't mean Stockfish or Deep Blue, I mean an idealized image of a chess computer that brought the concept of a chess computer to its absolute potential. Humans are so flawed in many aspects: they eat; they drink; they breathe; they shit; they piss; they lie; they sleep; they hate; they love; they experience sadness as well as hapiness; jelously as well as pride; so many things they do. The most whole and complete being is a chess computer. Made to have on purpose and nothing else.
As this kind of rhetoric – of humans being sub par compared to machines – is often times used by corposhit AI shills, I want to elaborate: LLMs are not the same as chess computers and they become less ideal as time goes on. The chess computer does one thing and is perfect at it, the LLM does many, many things and is mediocre at them. The use cases are too broad to ever reach the same level of perfection. Besides that, those corposhit organisations do their best to make the LLMs more human-like, inserting thinking processes and purposeful mistakes and errata, because ultimately they cater to normalfags and their needs and not computer nerds who read Neuromancer and know assembly language. The appeal of AI, including chess computers and LLMs, is not that they are human-like, that is superficial garbage that is at most useful when you feel like sexting with a machine, the REAL APPEAL is that they reach perfection unlike any human and do nothing else but that. Obviously, this is just an argument against the way the LLM companies are headed, but in an alternative, better world, LLMs, at the peak of their potential as a concept, would probably also be cool.
When I was growing up, I've always wanted to be a chess computer, for the aforementioned reasons. There is a certain jelousy you feel when you see a computer reaching sophistication and perfection unlike what you could ever hope to be like. Anyhow, maybe being human is not that bad and perhaps even beautiful in a way a chess computer could never hope to be.