An Atari 2600 console 'absolutely wrecked' an AI model in a chess match

An Atari 2600 console 'absolutely wrecked' an AI model in a chess match

If Russian novelist and Crimean War veteran Leo Tolstoy is right about war being a chess match, we may not have to worry so much about fighting AI-led robots on a futuristic, “Terminator” like battlefield. At least, not yet. It turns out that some AI models are really bad at chess, specifically ChatGPT. Technology site Futurism found software engineer Robert Caruso’s LinkedIn post, wherein he reported that the popular AI bot got “absolutely wrec…

ChatGPT ‘Absolutely Wrecked’ by 1978 Atari in Chess Match

OpenAI has set ambitious expectations for ChatGPT’s future as a super-intelligent artificial general intelligence (AGI). Yet, in a recent showdown, its flagship chatbot was soundly defeated by a 46-year-old chess engine running on the Atari 2600, a console released in 1978. The Experiment and Surprising Result A software developer used an emulator to pit ChatGPT against Atari 2600’s Video Chess at the beginner level. ChatGPT struggled, reportedl…