Some may remember this historic match in 1997 between chess champion Garry Kasparov and IBM's supercomputer Deep Blue, the day the machine demonstrated its superiority over humans. Capable of evaluating 200 million game possibilities per second, Deep Blue is, however, outclassed by current technologies.
ChatGPT pitifully beaten by the 50-year-old Atari 2600 console ££££
So what about the Atari 2600 console released in late 1977 and the chess game Video Chess released in 1979, which can evaluate not one, but only two game possibilities each round? A sure defeat if we put it against ChatGPT, one of the flagships of today's artificial intelligence, wouldn't you say? Well, no, discovered computer scientist Robert Jr. Caruso, who had fun pitting the retro game against the famous AI.
ChatGPT humanly farting…££££
After losing the first time, the poor AI behaved like any good human and made excuses, including the inability to recognize the pieces because of the game's pixelated graphics (see photo above). Okay, let's admit it. But even after adapting the rules by providing standard chess notations to ChatGPT, the AI didn't do any better. It even "made enough blunders to get itself kicked out of a second-grade chess club amid mockery," Caruso commented. Tough.