Microsoft Copilot joins ChatGPT at the feet of the mighty Atari 2600 Video Chess

Not content with humiliating ChatGPT at the hands of Video Chess on an Atari 2600 emulator, Robert Caruso has tried again, this time with Microsoft's Copilot.

Theoretically, the result would be the same, and Copilot would take a similar drubbing. Yet... what if Copilot triumphed where ChatGPT could not? "There's no reason to think it would," wrote Caruso, but... "Imagine everyone's head exploding if a MICROSOFT product outperformed ChatGPT."

So Caruso fired up the Stella emulator and had a pre-game chat with Copilot to explain what tripped up ChatGPT. He told the chatbot that one of the main reasons why ChatGPT lost was that it could not keep track of the board. If Copilot suffered the same difficulty, then there'd be little point in bothering to play.

With the confidence that only an AI chatbot could muster, Copilot insisted not only could it play chess, but ...