- Microsoft Copilot has lost a game of chess to an Atari 2600.
- The loss follows ChatGPT's similar loss in Atari’s Video Chess.
- The AIs repeatedly lost track of the board state, demonstrating a key weakness in LLMs.
AI chatbot developers often boast about the logic and reasoning abilities of their models, but that doesn't mean the LLMs behind the chatbots are any good at chess. An experiment pitting Microsoft Copilot against the "AI" powering the 1979 Atari 2600 game Video Chess just ended in an embarrassing failure for Microsoft's pride and joy. Copilot joins ChatGPT on the list of opponents bested by the four-kilobyte Atari game.
