> edit: oh small world the cited comment was actually a response to you in that other thread :D

That's hilarious, we must have the same interests since we keep cross posting :D

The thing with the go comparison is that alphago was meant to solve go and nothing else. It couldn't do chess with the same weights.

The current SotA LLMs are "unreasonably good" at a LOT of tasks, while being trained with a very "simple" objective: NTP. That's the key difference here. We have these "stochastic parrots" + RL + compute that basically solve top tier competitions in math, coding, and who knows what else... I think it's insanely good for what it is.