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What's impressive for a human and for an AI are two different things.

Magnus Carlson had a peak ELO rating of almost 2900.

Would you be impressed with someone with an ELO of 3700?

Would you still be impressed if I told you it was Stockfish?

OpenAI didn't go looking for a tough-for-an-AI problem to solve - they went looking for one that looked like it was easy since it they had heard it had already been solved.

Do you find this impressive?

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Yes, Stockfish is genuinely impressive. I would be proud to author Stockfish. You don't think so?

As a developer yes, especially given that it runs on a PC, and DeepBlue in it's day was really more impressive since is used custom ASICs.

But, I assume the Stockfish developers aren't comparing themselves to Magnus.

Let's see if OpenAI, or someone else, can get these sort of physics/math results out of a desktop PC - that would also be an impressive piece of engineering!

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