Google launches the Kaggle Game Arena, a new platform where top AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and more will compete in chess to test reasoning skills.

Google said it’s launching the Kaggle Game Arena because games like chess represent one of the best ways to carry out a robust evaluation of an LLM’s reasoning capabilities.

Despite being sure it would beat the 1977 Atari 2600, Gemini AI decided not to play after hearing the console beat ChatGPT.

ChatGPT Gets "Absolutely Wrecked" By An Atari Video Chess Game Built In 1979 "It made enough blunders to get laughed out of a third grade chess club," Citrix engineer Robert Jr. Caruso explained.

Nevertheless, you might expect something a little more impressive than this. Talking to ChatGPT about the history of AI in chess "led to it volunteering to play Atari Chess," said Caruso on LinkedIn.

Robert Caruso, an engineer at Citrix, organised the game between the AI and a simple 1977 chess program released for the Atari 2600.

Experts argue that by playing chess, students can learn valuable skills that can benefit them in the classroom.

In a unique experiment, an engineer pitted the latest ChatGPT 4o model against his Atari 2600's chess engine on the beginner difficulty level, and ChatGPT got handily defeated, eventually conceding.

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