I might even think that a symbolic chess program is in some sense more intelligent than a modern LLM. It has a concrete model of the world it operates in along

I might even think that a symbolic chess program is in some sense more intelligent than a modern LLM. It has a concrete model of the world it operates in along with representation what it can, cannot, and is trying to, do. When LLMs get the right answer, it seems more like... highly-optimized chance, rather than coming from any sort of factual knowledge.