OpenAI's ChatGPT has some major AI chatbot competitors in the market: Gemini, Copilot, Claude. Now add to that list the Atari ...

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

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

From analog sticks to motion controls, these are the games that didn’t just launch on a console; they defined what it could ...

spent some computing cycles to generate random data and, via heuristics, find valid Atari 2600 “games” in the data. As you might expect, the games aren’t going to be things you want to play ...

For decades, AI systems have faced off against humans as well as other computer programmes in a test of their smarts.

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 ...

Now add to that list the Atari 2600. The OG video game console, which was first released in 1977, was used in an engineer's experiment to see how it would fare playing chess against the AI chatbot.

Also check out: The Legends of Tech Series: Atari 2600 - The Atlantis of Game Consoles. Caruso's experiment is a useful reminder about what LLM models actually are: a complex, heuristics-based ...