ChatGPT has been humiliated in a game of chess – by a 48-year-old Atari console. Developer Robert Jr Caruso from US software firm Citrix set up a match between the AI chatbot and Atari Video Chess (pictured) – a game released for the Atari 2600 in the late 1970s.
He described the contest in a LinkedIn post (www.snipca. com/55248), saying it came after a conversation with ChatGPT about the history of AI in chess that led to the chatbot volunteering to play Atari Chess.
ChatGPT wanted to find out how quickly it could beat a game that only thinks one or two moves ahead and is powered by a 1.19MHz processor. By contrast, today’s computers have processors that run at 3,000MHz (3GHz) or more, roughly 2,500 times faster.