Despite all its advances, ChatGPT still, seemingly, is less smart than an Atari simulator on beginner mode. In a post on LinkedIn, of all places, Citrix software engineer Robert Caruso explained how the OpenAI chatbot "got absolutely wrecked" by an Atari 2600 — and how the whole thing was apparently suggested by ChatGPT itself. Launched in 1977, the 2600 model popularized at-home gaming after Atari released its "Pong" console two years prior. Still, that system was released some 21 years after the MANIAC I supercomputer became the first machine in history to defeat a human at modified chess, which would […]