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 ...

Microsoft Copilot has lost a game of chess to an Atari 2600. The loss follows ChatGPT's similar loss in Atari’s Video Chess. The AIs repeatedly lost track of the board state, demonstrating a key ...

"ChatGPT confused rooks for bishops, missed pawn forks and repeatedly lost track of where pieces were -- first blaming the Atari icons as too abstract, then faring no better even after switching to ...

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 ultimate ...

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 ...

"ChatGPT confused rooks for bishops, missed pawn forks and repeatedly lost track of where pieces were -- first blaming the Atari icons as too abstract, then faring no better even after switching to ...

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An Atari 2600 chess cartridge has humiliated OpenAI's vaunted ChatGPT, highlighting the limits that large language models still face outside pure text. What Happened: Citrix engineer Robert Caruso ...

The first computer to ever beat a reigning chess world champion didn’t do so until 1996 when a supercomputer built by IBM beat Garry Kasparov. But anyone who wasn’t a chess Grandmaster could have been ...