Microsoft Copilot has lost a game of chess to an Atari 2600. The loss follows ChatGPT's similar loss in Atari’s Video Chess. The AIs repeatedly lost track of the board state, demonstrating a key ...
ChatGPT volunteered to play a 1977-vintage Atari 2600 to a game of chess and came to regret it after the eight-bit chess engine from the age of Disco Fever and the introduction of the Force did better ...
RPG Larian's head writer has a simple answer for how AI-generated text helps development: 'It doesn't,' thanks to its best output being 'a 3/10 at best' worse than his worst drafts AI Stellar Blade's ...
"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 ...
Hardware Dell's CES 2026 chat was the most pleasingly un-AI briefing I've had in maybe 5 years RPG Larian's head writer has a simple answer for how AI-generated text helps development: 'It doesn't,' ...
"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 ...
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However, its flagship chatbot just got trounced by a 46-year-old device at one of the world’s oldest games of skill. Using an emulator, a software developer pitted ChatGPT against the Atari 2600’s ...
The thing that AI models apparently fear the most? A game console released nearly fifty years ago. We are referring, of course, to the inimitable Atari 2600. Last month, the iconic system embarrassed ...