Meanwhile even the highest ranked models can’t do simple logic tasks. GothamChess on YouTube did some tests where he played against a bunch of the best models and every single one of them failed spectacularly.

They’d happily lose a queen to take a pawn. They failed to understand how pieces are even allowed to move, hallucinated the existence of new pieces, repeatedly declared checkmate when it wasn’t, etc.

I tried it last night with Gemini 2.5 Pro and it made it 6 turns before it started making illegal moves, and 8 turns before it got so confused about the state of the board before it refused to play with me any longer.

I was in the chess club in 3rd grade. One of the top ranked LLMs in the world is vastly dumber than I was in 3rd grade. But we’re going to pour hundreds of billions into this in the hope that it can end my career? Good luck with that, guys.