Sarah has been an editor and contributor for Game Rant since 2015. After meeting her first Chocobo, she never looked back. Sarah majored in game design in college and utilizes that knowledge to ...

Your cutting-edge AI assistant just got schooled by hardware that predates the internet. In June 2025, Citrix engineer Robert Jr. Caruso watched OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4o get demolished by an Atari 2600 ...

During a conversation with ChatGPT about artificial intelligence and chess, ChatGPT touted its skill in the game. The chatbot claimed it could easily beat Video Chess, a 4KB chess game for the ...

ChatGPT and its friends are great for researching, as assistants, or meme image creators, but if you need actual smarts, what you really want is a 1977-vintage Atari 2600 console. That's the ultimate ...

Despite ever-growing interest in AI tools and assistants, it’s worth remembering that they’re still quite limited with numerous shortcomings. They are not as smart as they might seem on the surface.

Last month we reported on the somewhat-surprising news that an emulated Atari 2600 running the 1979 software Video Chess had "absolutely wrecked" an overconfident ChatGPT at the game of kings. Fans of ...

Anyway, the Atari 2600 Video Chess engine continues to be a thorn in the side of modern chess-attempting LLMs, and this time its reputation is such that it scared its opponent off the board before the ...