Since at least the 1950s, chess has served as a kind of benchmark for machine intelligence. IBM’s Deep Blue shocked the world in 1997 when it beat then-world champion Garry Kasparov. That machine used ...

ChatGPT volunteered to play a 1977-vintage Atari 2600 to a game of chess and came to regret it after the eight-bit chess ...

The Arati 2600 from the late 1970s is not exactly cutting-edge hardware, but it's apparently powerful enough to beat ChatGPT ...

Caruso said ChatGPT blamed the icons Atari chess uses “as too abstract to recognize”. But even after changing to standard ...

"Despite being given a baseline board layout to identify pieces ... then faring no better even after switching to standard chess notation." To be fair, I'd probably confuse a few pieces the ...

Despite all its advances, ChatGPT still, seemingly, is less smart than an Atari simulator on beginner mode. In a post on ...

An Atari 2600 chess cartridge defeated OpenAI's ChatGPT, highlighting limitations of large language models in non-text tasks.

ChatGPT and its friends are great for researching, as assistants, or meme image creators, but if you need actual smarts, what you really want is a 1977-vintage Atari 2600 console. That's the ultimate ...

"ChatGPT got absolutely wrecked on the beginner level," says Caruso. "Despite being given a baseline board layout to identify ...