Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic

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otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

These tools are marketed as replacing lots of jobs that are a hell of a lot more complex than a simple board game.

There isn’t really a single sliding scale of “complexity” when it comes to certain tasks.

Given the appropriate input, a calculator can divide two numbers. But it can’t count the number of R’s in the word “strawberry”.

Meanwhile, a script that could count the number of instances of a letter in a word could count those R’s, but it couldn’t divide any two numbers.

Similarly, we didn’t complain that a typewriter couldn’t put pepperoni slices onto a pizza.

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