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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

In many parts of the AI community, people are used to thinking about artificial intelligence as applied to new and modern forms of game theory. For example, some of the most tangible rollouts of AI ...

A new study says many AI models will cheat when playing a game of chess. Researchers pitted the AI against Stockfish, a powerful open-source chess engine. But some models, including Open AI’s o1 ...

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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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 ...

Palisade Research recently detailed a ChatGPT experiment in which a reasoning model was told to play chess against a more powerful opponent and win. Rather than attempt to beat the stronger opponent, ...

Booth is a reporter at TIME. Booth is a reporter at TIME. Complex games like chess and Go have long been used to test AI models’ capabilities. But while IBM’s Deep Blue defeated reigning world chess ...

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 ...