Astra builds playable 4D chess, drawing 'stochastic parrots' snark
giffmana · x · 2026-09-05
Developer mikicode got the Astra model to produce a playable 4D chess demo and shared it on X. giffmana quote-posted it with the dismissive quip "Stochastic parrots, basically," implying the model is pattern-matching rather than reasoning. The snark itself signals the demo shows spatial reasoning beyond expectations.
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