It is a matter of degree. GPT-4 may, for various reasons some of which are artificial handicaps, have only a weak grasp of a board representation now. But if it

It is a matter of degree. GPT-4 may, for various reasons some of which are artificial handicaps, have only a weak grasp of a board representation now. But if it has any such representation at all, that's already a different story than if it did not. I think all evidence points this way, even from other networks, e.g. image classification networks that learn common vision filters. It's a pretty general phenomenon.