Using a software emulator, Atari’s 1979 video game can be run. Citrix engineer Robert Caruso, who works for Citrix, said that he was able set up a match with ChatGPT against the 46-year old game Video Chess. The matchup was not a success 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 has written 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.
For decades, the ability for computers to defeat humans at chess has been a measure of their power. In 1997, IBM made headlines when its Deep Blue technology defeated chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov in a series of matches.
Caruso’s experiment doesn’t mean ChatGPT is It’s not a good chess computerbut it is a great language model. A developer created a ChatGPT a few years ago. ChessGPT is a plugin that can be downloaded from the web. It may be better to talk about chess with OpenAI’s chatbot rather than try to play it.
OpenAI’s representative did not immediately respond to a request for a comment.
Disclosure: Ziff Davis (parent company of CNET) filed a lawsuit in April against OpenAI alleging that it had infringed Ziff Davis’ copyrights by training and operating their AI systems.
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