> These people used bad prompts and came to the conclusion that ChatGPT can’t play a legal chess game. (…)
> With this prompt ChatGPT almost always plays fully legal games.
> Occasionally it does make an illegal move, but I decided to interpret that as ChatGPT flipping the table (…)
> (…) with GPT4 (…) in the two games I attempted, it made numerous illegal moves.
So you’ve ostensibly¹ found a way to reduce the error rate and then deliberately ignored the cases where it failed. In short: it may play valid chess under certain conditions but can’t be trusted to do so. That doesn’t contradict previous findings.
¹ 19 games is a small sample and the supposedly more advanced system failed in your tries.
> With this prompt ChatGPT almost always plays fully legal games.
> Occasionally it does make an illegal move, but I decided to interpret that as ChatGPT flipping the table (…)
> (…) with GPT4 (…) in the two games I attempted, it made numerous illegal moves.
So you’ve ostensibly¹ found a way to reduce the error rate and then deliberately ignored the cases where it failed. In short: it may play valid chess under certain conditions but can’t be trusted to do so. That doesn’t contradict previous findings.
¹ 19 games is a small sample and the supposedly more advanced system failed in your tries.