An engineer pits the AI ChatGPT against the 1977 game console Atari 2600 in a game of chess, and the match ends in disaster for ChatGPT.

An almost 50-year-old Atari Chess game left both Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT LLM chatbots in defeat against 4KB of ancient technology.

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

Google's Gemini AI chatbot boasted that it would crush the Atari 2600 at chess — before cowering in fear in the face of a superior machine.

When MuZero is employed on a machine learning-capable computer, it's able to learn games and master games like Go, and Chess.

That's ChessBase as created in 1986. I had another short-term computer contract with Atari computers. You remember Atari ST? That was the beginning of the chess computer club in Moscow.

A new artificial intelligence program from Google DeepMind has taught itself how to play classic Atari 2600 games. And it can probably beat your high score.

For nearly as long as A.I. has existed, researchers have used games as a benchmark for intelligence. But why use games to test these systems?