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ChatGPT gets beat at chess by 70s era Atari 2600

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By using a software emulator to run Atari's 1979 game Video Chess, Citrix engineer Robert Caruso said he was able to set up a match between ChatGPT and the 46-year-old game. The matchup did not go well for ChatGPT.
"ChatGPT confused rooks for bishops, missed pawn forks and repeatedly lost track of where pieces were -- first blaming the Atari icons as too abstract, then faring no better even after switching to standard chess notations," Caruso wrote in a LinkedIn post.

"It made enough blunders to get laughed out of a 3rd-grade chess club,"
Caruso wrote that the 90-minute match continued badly and that the AI chatbot repeatedly requested that the match start over.
Sounds like CryGPT. :D
 
I have an Atari 2600 Chess game. I played it so much in the 70s that I eventually lost interest in the game of chess.

Now go trust AI to give you medical advice.
Still have my 2600 and a few games as well. Just need some joysticks. Need to see if it still works.
 
The original Atari 2600 console, released in 1977, had an introductory price of $199. This included the console, two joysticks, a pair of paddles, and the "Combat" game cartridge. That's equivalent to $1060 in today's dollars. It was an expensive toy back then. Our family could not afford one.
 
Gotta have some Missle Command Yars Revenge in there.
I think someone I knew had Missile Command. I had the space shuttle one with the special controller sheet. That one was tough. I think my dad got interested and helped me figure it out.
 
The original Atari 2600 console, released in 1977, had an introductory price of $199. This included the console, two joysticks, a pair of paddles, and the "Combat" game cartridge. That's equivalent to $1060 in today's dollars. It was an expensive toy back then. Our family could not afford one.
Damn, ny parents dropped a chunk one Christmas and certainly not well off. Now I feel bad..
;)

At least you got a second controller. Now, wanna play 2-player, Give up another 100.
 
If I'm not mistaken, and I may very well be, someone asked ChatGPT why 2+2=5, and ChatGPT explained why.

That anecdote aside, ChatGPT can be equal parts confident and loony and wrong.

I'll check in on it again in five years.
 
This is weird to put a tokenized language model against a chess program at the game of chess.

It makes as much sense as somebody declaring with amazement that ChatGPT just beat an Atari 2600 chess program in a competition to generate a poem about dolphins carrying umbrellas.
 
If you ask the question right, I bet ChatGPT could suggest some ways out of a checkmate that Atari 2600 wouldn't think of, like inadvertently knocking over the board (or tripping the breaker), or putting back some pieces while the opponent isn't looking.
 
Chat GPT is a chatbot. Of course it can't play chess. Not programmed to do so, just programmed to generate words.
 
Chat GPT is a chatbot. Of course it can't play chess. Not programmed to do so, just programmed to generate words.

How dare you insult my new girlfriend like that.
 
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