ChatGPT loses to Atari 2600 in chess match
When ChatGPT was pitted against an emulator for the Atari 2600, a game console released in 1977, it was found that ChatGPT lost a game.
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ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic | Tom's Hardware
Engineer Robert Jr. Caruso had ChatGPT play the Atari 2600 chess game 'Video Chess,' and it was completely defeated even at the beginner level, despite the Atari 2600 having an 8-bit processor running at 1.19MHz and only 128 bytes of RAM.
According to Caruso, ChatGPT was able to identify the board and think about the next move, but at one point he criticized the Atari 2600 piece icons as being too abstract to recognize. However, changing the icons to standard chess notation did not change the results.
'Despite being given basic information to identify the pieces, ChatGPT confused rooks with bishops, missed pawn forks, and repeatedly forgot where the pieces were,' Caruso wrote.
ChatGPT repeatedly replied that it would improve if it tried again, but it still couldn't recognize the board state, and Caruso had to repeatedly explain it to it. ChatGPT eventually gave up the match.
Technology publication Tom's Hardware reports, 'The news flow about artificial intelligence seems to swing between extremes. Sometimes AI capabilities astound, and other times they're laughable or dangerously inadequate. This story falls into the latter category.'
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