If Russian novelist and Crimean War veteran Leo Tolstoy is right about war being a chess match, we may not have to worry so much about fighting AI-led robots on a futuristic, “Terminator” like ...

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 ...

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 ...

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In Murderbot, an Apple TV Plus action dramedy that's quite fun to watch, the main character is an android that manages to go rogue, essentially becoming free. That gives the advanced AI inside the ...

Despite ever-growing interest in AI tools and assistants, it’s worth remembering that they’re still quite limited with numerous shortcomings. They are not as smart as they might seem on the surface.

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In episode 55 of The AI Fix, Gemini thinks a little meth won’t hurt, Mark realises what a terrifying 45mph “robot bird” is really for, Graham finds a surprising number of TikTokers in the bible, an AI ...