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We are referring, of course, to the inimitable Atari 2600. Last month, the iconic system embarrassed the AI industry after it absolutely rinsed ChatGPT at a simple game of chess.
It was a clash between a machine released in 1977, with 128 bytes of RAM, and a cutting-edge large language model with trillions of parameters, powered by however many thousands of graphics cards and billions of dollars of Microsoftmoney. In the face of it all, the underdog prevailed. OpenAI's model, meanwhile, "made enough blunders to get laughed out of a 3rd grade chess club."
Word of the Atari's exploits apparently got out to the other AI models. Robert Caruso, the software engineer who orchestrated the chess showdown, told The Register that Google's Gemini chatbot straight up refused a match against the Atari, after talking a big game about how it'd easily crush the old machine. It even came up with a bogus excuse to save face.
"Canceling the match is likely the most time-efficient and sensible decision," Gemini said, according to Caruso.
To be fair, the AI is exercising some time-old strategist's...