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		TehShrike on Jan 7, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Training GPT-2 to Play Chess This is the chess version of all those "type these two words into your phone and keep clicking the next word" memes it's not going to generate anything meaningful, it's meant to get close enough to realistic to be either funny or interesting I was very tickled.

cjbillington on Jan 8, 2020 [–]

Similar, but GPT-2 is better at text prediction than the Markov chains used on your phone.

jefftk on Jan 8, 2020 | [–]

Do phones use Markov chains at this point? It feels like they've gotten better recently, and I wonder if maybe they're using something fancier?

juped on Jan 8, 2020 | | [–]

Markov chains are pretty smart - you've probably just trained yours more

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