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Google’s Gemini refuses to play Chess against the Atari 2600www.theregister.com/2025/07/14/atari_chess_vs_gemini/
231 sats \ 4 comments \ @0xbitcoiner 14h AI
Warned that ChatGPT and Copilot had already lost, it stopped boasting and packed up its pawns
Google’s Gemini chatbot declined to play Chess against the Atari 2600, after learning the vintage gaming console had already vanquished other AIs.
Robert Caruso, the infrastructure architect who pitted Atari Chess and its feeble hardware against ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, told The Register readers have asked him if Google’s Gemini could do any better.
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32 sats \ 3 replies \ @optimism 14h
Did Goog train Gemini on humility?
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100 sats \ 2 replies \ @0xbitcoiner OP 14h
I don’t think so. Hahaha! But it’s important, there’s no such thing as intelligence if you don’t know your own limits!
Gemini first told Caruso it would almost certainly dominate Atari Chess “because it is not a mere large language model.”
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @optimism 14h
Teaching humility and aggressive self-overestimation aren't mutually exclusive!
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner OP 13h
True. What happens is, some people/AI just take longer than others to show a bit of humility.
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