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Despite promising "a strong fight", Microsoft's golden AI chatbot couldn't even remember the chessboard state.
Citrix engineer Robert Caruso recently posted on LinkedIn about testing both Microsoft's Copilot chatbot and ChatGPT against an Atari chess game from the 1970s — a challenge that left the 46-year-old, 4 KB Atari 2600 Video Chess game undefeated against modern Artificial Intelligence.
According to Caruso, the decision to pit ChatGPT against an Atari-built "AI" was born from a conversation with the chatbot regarding the differences in the open-source chess engine Stockfish and the program AlphaZero. The conversation took a turn, Caruso shared, when ChatGPT's chatbot claimed it was "a strong player in its own right and would easily beat Atari's Video Chess."
So, the engineer set up a game of chess in the Atari 2600 Video Chess game, originally released in 1979, via the Stella emulator. During the match-up, ChatGPT confused the game pieces and lost track of the board state, even with assistance from Caruso correcting board awareness in a 90-minute match that ultimately led to the chatbot's defeat at the beginner level. Not a great start.
The battle between humans, AI, and the game of chess has been raging on since the late 90s, when an IBM Deep Blue supercomputer defeated the Russian chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion, Garry Kasparov.
It was only natural that Caruso couldn't stop with a failed match between ChatGPT and Atari. He decided to repeat the experiment with Microsoft's golden child, Copilot. "Imagine everyone's head exploding if a MICROSOFT product outperformed ChatGPT," Caruso wrote.
He repeated the beginning of the experiment with Microsoft's Copilot AI, the same as he had with ChatGPT, by having a pre-game "conversation" with the chatbot. Copilot reportedly claimed it could keep track of the board, unlike ChatGPT, but once Caruso asked Microsoft's chatbot to render the board as it imagined it, the reality of the match became clearer.
Copilot's board was different from the previous screenshot Caruso had fed into it.
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Citrix engineer Robert Caruso recently posted on LinkedIn about testing both Microsoft's Copilot chatbot and ChatGPT against an Atari chess game from the 1970s — a challenge that left the 46-year-old, 4 KB Atari 2600 Video Chess game undefeated against modern Artificial Intelligence.
According to Caruso, the decision to pit ChatGPT against an Atari-built "AI" was born from a conversation with the chatbot regarding the differences in the open-source chess engine Stockfish and the program AlphaZero. The conversation took a turn, Caruso shared, when ChatGPT's chatbot claimed it was "a strong player in its own right and would easily beat Atari's Video Chess."
So, the engineer set up a game of chess in the Atari 2600 Video Chess game, originally released in 1979, via the Stella emulator. During the match-up, ChatGPT confused the game pieces and lost track of the board state, even with assistance from Caruso correcting board awareness in a 90-minute match that ultimately led to the chatbot's defeat at the beginner level. Not a great start.
The battle between humans, AI, and the game of chess has been raging on since the late 90s, when an IBM Deep Blue supercomputer defeated the Russian chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion, Garry Kasparov.
It was only natural that Caruso couldn't stop with a failed match between ChatGPT and Atari. He decided to repeat the experiment with Microsoft's golden child, Copilot. "Imagine everyone's head exploding if a MICROSOFT product outperformed ChatGPT," Caruso wrote.
He repeated the beginning of the experiment with Microsoft's Copilot AI, the same as he had with ChatGPT, by having a pre-game "conversation" with the chatbot. Copilot reportedly claimed it could keep track of the board, unlike ChatGPT, but once Caruso asked Microsoft's chatbot to render the board as it imagined it, the reality of the match became clearer.
Copilot's board was different from the previous screenshot Caruso had fed into it.

Copilot and ChatGPT went against a 4 KB Atari chess game from the 70s — with an embarrassing effort from Microsoft's AI
Despite promising "a strong fight", Microsoft's golden AI chatbot couldn't even remember the chessboard state.

