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ChatGPT Sucks at Chess by bitterirony

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ChatGPT Sucks at Chess
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The other day I was playing chess on chess.com while training down to London, as one does, and the idea occurred to me, why not play the chess.com bot cranked up to expert level (2200) but let ChatGPT dictate my moves, essentially making it an AI vs AI match.

Well, things started out swimmingly but by about the 10th move ChatGPT began losing the plot, by which I mean forgetting where both my (our!) pieces and the chess.com bot’s pieces resided on the board. At first I tried to gently correct ChatGPT by saying things like, “My light squared bishop is already on that square” or “That move would put me in check.” ChatGPT would apologize and suggest an alternate move, all the while maintaining a very positive attitude that made me think (hallucinate?) it had something up it’s digital sleeve, but eventually, after the bot captured our queen, it had to admit, “This is now a losing position.” I agreed and resigned.

So, while ChatGPT is wicked smaht about a lot of cool stuff, chess is clearly not its forte. Maybe game theory is better suited to its overly developed neural networks. Poker anyone/thing?
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@steevc ·
I saw something a while back about people letting these bots play chess. Some of them just got the rules wrong. It could be that they have just tried to guess them from whatever they find online. Of course they ought to improve.
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