Your cutting-edge AI assistant just got schooled by hardware that predates the internet. In June 2025, Citrix engineer Robert Jr. Caruso watched OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4o get demolished by an Atari 2600 ...
During a conversation with ChatGPT about artificial intelligence and chess, ChatGPT touted its skill in the game. The chatbot claimed it could easily beat Video Chess, a 4KB chess game for the ...
TL;DR: In a surprising experiment, Atari 2600's 1979 chess game outperformed ChatGPT despite its 1.19 MHz CPU and limited move evaluation. The AI struggled with basic chess notation and made critical ...