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ChatGPT gets crushed at chess by a 1 MHz Atari 2600
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....
Citrix engineer Robert Jr. Caruso conducted the "funny" little experiment over the weekend, pitting OpenAI's mighty chatbot against a virtual Atari 2600 console emulated by Stella. "For 90 minutes, I had to stop it from making awful moves and correct its board awareness multiple times per turn," the engineer said about ChatGPT's performance against an emulated CPU console from the 70s. Caruso's experiment is a useful reminder about what LLM models actually are: a complex, heuristics-based black box search engine designed to constantly please the final user with some sort of captivating result.
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