In a moment both absurd and strikingly revealing, two state-of-the-art AI chatbots—Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT—found themselves unable to best a 46-year-old, 4 KB chess program running on the Atari 2600. This unlikely contest, orchestrated by Citrix engineer Robert Caruso and chronicled across...
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The mighty have fallen in perhaps the most unexpected way possible: against the nostalgic backdrop of early gaming, the once-mighty AI titans of the present—ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot—have both stumbled, and spectacularly so, before the unassuming might of Atari 2600's Video Chess. This...
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