Digital Trends

Blindsided by brutal AI chess bots? This one thinks like a human

For years, the game of chess has been seen as a litmus test for how far AI can go against the human intellect. When IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer beat reigning Chess world champion Garry Kasparov in ...
PC Gamer

Google's Gemini AI backed out of a chess match against a 46 year-old Atari 2600 engine after suffering a crisis of confidence: 'Canceling the match is likely the most time ...

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Gemini AI Refuses To Play Chess With Atari After Hearing ChatGPT Lost

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 ...
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Grok Just Lost An AI Chess Tournament To OpenAI, But Does It Really Matter?

We live in a world where AI companies like OpenAI and Google are constantly looking for new ways to pit their AI models against each other. One of the most recent attempts to measure how top AI models ...
New Atlas

ChatGPT takes on a 1977 Atari at chess ... and it doesn't go well

ChatGPT volunteered to play a 1977-vintage Atari 2600 to a game of chess and came to regret it after the eight-bit chess engine from the age of Disco Fever and the introduction of the Force did better ...
SiliconANGLE

Google’s Kaggle to host AI chess tournament to evaluate leading AI models’ reasoning skills

The world’s top performing artificial intelligence models, including OpenAI’s o3 and 04-mini, Google LLC’s Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash, Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4, and xAI Corp.’s Grok 4 are ...
Futurism

Google’s AI Refuses to Even Play Chess Against 1977 Atari, After Hearing What It Did to Other Cutting-Edge AIs

The thing that AI models apparently fear the most? A game console released nearly fifty years ago. We are referring, of course, to the inimitable Atari 2600. Last month, the iconic system embarrassed ...
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Copilot and ChatGPT went against a 4 KB Atari chess game from the 70s — with an embarrassing effort from Microsoft's AI

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, ...
PC Gamer

After conquering ChatGPT, Atari 2600 Video Chess destroys Microsoft Copilot: 'The vintage silicon mastermind bested me fair and square'

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Business Insider

OpenAI's o3 faced off against xAI's Grok 4 in a chess tournament. It swept the board.

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

AI is making advances every day. But humans are still best at a classic pastime: cribbage.

Cribbage involves strategy, adaptability, and luck, currently giving human players an edge over AI. “15-two, 15-four and there ain’t no more.” “That’s a 19 hand.” For now, human cribbage players still ...