What's the point? You play these games to improve your own mind, or for your own enjoyment.

I enjoy wordle and wouldn’t automate it to replace my play. I also enjoy techie people demonstrating that you can automate X with Y tool. That’s another form of problem solving. Can’t those enjoyments exist simultaneously?

No you see chatgpt is doing the thinking for us now, instead of using your own brain to struggle with a puzzle that is trivial to solve for a simple algorithm you can let a language model struggle with it for you! You get all of the enjoyment from solving a puzzle with an inefficient overly complicated general purpose solver, without needing to put in any work yourself!

Same as the point in watching dog play with ball. You can also play with ball for enjoyment but sometimes the enjoyment is in seeing the limits of something else.

Is playing a variation of hangman really the limits of an LLM as if so we have vastly over estimated it's usefulness? It isn't a particularly challenging game? for humans, let alone a model that can use data and stats to analyse possibilities and probabilities.

I watched a cat fall over. It was amusing. This is clearly the limits of cats and we have vastly over estimated their usefulness. I am truly wise.

It's like breeding a dog to have fingers so it can unplug your life support

Enjoyment comes from it autonomously choosing to do so.

Look at little jeepeety, so cute.

It was just a bit of fun to test the model, see what it could do :) But still, more people watch football than play football, right? ;)