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

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 ...

By using a software emulator to run Atari's 1979 game Video Chess, Citrix engineer Robert Caruso said he was able to set up a ...

In fact, Caruso says the chatbot repeatedly asked to restart the match, clearly flustered by its poor performance.

ChatGPT allegedly got “wrecked” by an emulated Atari 2600 in a game of Video Chess The console is 48 years old pic.twitter.com/YaExEgSOY8 — Dexerto (@Dexerto) June 11, 2025 “ChatGPT confused rooks for ...

A cycle-exact emulation of the Atari 2600 CPU running at a meager 1.19 MHz is more than enough to utterly humiliate ChatGPT ...

The Arati 2600 from the late 1970s is not exactly cutting-edge hardware, but it's apparently powerful enough to beat ChatGPT ...

Artificial intelligence platforms like ChatGPT have been positioned as The Next Big Thing thanks to their ability to tackle ...

ChatGPT lost a chess match to an emulated Atari 2600 after volunteering to take on the almost 50-year-old console.

In a unique experiment, an engineer pitted the latest ChatGPT 4o model against his Atari 2600's chess engine on the beginner difficulty level, and ChatGPT got handily defeated, eventually conceding.