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ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] IsaamoonKHGDT_6143@lemmy.zip -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They used ChatGPT 4o, instead of using o1 or o3.

Obviously it was going to fail.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Other studies (not all chess based or against this old chess AI) show similar lackluster results when using reasoning models.

Edit: When comparing reasoning models to existing algorithmic solutions.