The Path of AI Creator News: Atari 2600 beats ChatGPT in chess! What is the amazing power of retro technology? #Atari2600 #ChatGPT #AIchess
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Hello, it's John! Do you think the world of AI seems a bit difficult? Don't worry! Today, I'll be explaining some surprising news about AI in a fun and easy-to-understand way for everyone.
What? That nostalgic game console beat the latest AI?!
Everyone, are you enjoyingChat GPTHave you heard of ChatGPT? It's a great AI that's all the rage these days, and it can write natural sentences and answer questions like a human. I sometimes use it to help me come up with ideas for blog posts.
The latest news has come out that ChatGPT, a cutting-edge AI, may have lost a game of chess to a very old game console! You may be wondering, "What kind of game console is that?"Atari 2600I was surprised again to find out that this game console was released in 1977!
For those of you who are wondering "What is the Atari 2600?", let me explain a little. It is a pioneering home video game console that appeared before the Family Computer (Famicom). Some of you may have memories of playing games with beeping sounds and block-like graphics (I also have vague memories of it...).
Are the Atari 2600's specs so lame that they're unthinkable in this day and age?
How old is the Atari 2600 technology?
- The speed of the CPU (the part equivalent to the human brain) is1.19MHz(Megahertz). Today's smartphones have CPUs that are several GHz (gigahertz, 1000 times megahertz!), so it's incomparably slower.
- RAM (like the size of your desk) is just128 bytesNot megabytes or gigabytes, just bytes! On today's smartphones, it's so small that it can't even fit a single photo, let alone the entire text of a short email.
It's truly amazing that a gaming console with such performance that, from today's perspective, you would think, "Huh, can games really run on that?", was able to beat the latest AI.
On the other hand, ChatGPT is supposed to be an extremely powerful AI…
On the other hand, ChatGPT is an AI that learns from a huge amount of data and returns intelligent answers.GPUIt should be an ultra-high performance device, using a lot of GPUs (short for Graphics Processing Units, components primarily used to improve the quality of game graphics and speed up AI calculations).
How is it possible that such a champion of the AI world could lose a game of chess to an Atari 2600?
Why? Possible reasons
The original article on this news article said that someone claimed that the Atari 2600 had completely beaten ChatGPT in chess. Regardless of whether this was true or not, if this really happened, what possible reasons could there be for this?
Let's imagine for a moment.
- ChatGPT is not a "chess-only AI"
ChatGPT is a type of AI called a "language model" that is good at understanding words and creating sentences. Of course, it can learn the rules of chess and play them in a similar way. However, compared to a specialized program (even an old one) made just for chess, it may be inferior in terms of strategic depth and accuracy. Even among humans, jack-of-all-trades and experts have different areas of expertise. - Atari 2600 chess program, simple but reliable?
The chess program that ran on the Atari 2600 must have been very simple, of course. However, within its limited capabilities, it was probably written to follow the basic rules of chess and make the right moves. Even if it was unable to think in a complex way, it may not have violated the rules or made many obviously bad moves. - Has ChatGPT's "humanness" become its downfall?
ChatGPT sometimes makes small mistakes that humans might make, or says things that seem reasonable at first glance but are strange when you think about it. It's like when you make a move that seems plausible in chess, but turns out to be a bad move.
What's interesting about this news is that it humorously teaches us that "new things are not always better than old things" and that "AI is not omnipotent."
Of course, this is only for the specific game of chess. ChatGPT's ability to compose, write code, and generate ideas is something the Atari 2600 just can't match.
A word from John
Well, when I first heard this news, I honestly said "What!?" out loud. It was like a nostalgic old man giving a young person with the latest technology a run for their money (laughs). It's amazing how much technology advances, but it made me realise that old technology also had its purpose.
This article is based on the following original articles and is summarized from the author's perspective:
Chap claims Atari 2600 'absolutely wrecked' ChatGPT at
chess