About whether LLMs can master games like chess the way humans do, without practice.
Has this happened?
Yes 26 (21%)Not sure 42 (34%)No 54 (44%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether LLMs can master games like chess the way humans do, without practice.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
And how many years of direct play and study does it take for a human to get good at chess or any other game? Absolutely no human ever could be good at chess just by reading a few books, or even every book on chess. That's just not how the brain works. If LLMs could do that they would truly be superintelligence.