ChatGPT Just Got 'Absolutely Wrecked' at Chess, Losing to a 1970s-Era Atari 2600

An anonymous reader shared this report from CNET:

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 said. 'ChatGPT got absolutely wrecked at the beginner level.'

'Caruso wrote that the 90-minute match continued badly and that the AI chatbot repeatedly requested that the match start over...' CNET reports.

'A representative for OpenAI did not immediately return a request for comment.'

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