Janelle at AIWeirdness is having fun with ChatGPT’s supreme cognitive abilities. She played several games of tic-tac-toe. Chat confidently lost every one. I haven’t played the game in decades, and I’ve never been good at strategy, but even I can see the instant win for Chat’s human opponent in each case.
There is no end to its fluent pomposity. There is also no end to its incompetence. It has all the surface appearance of being an expert without any actual expertise. Something to keep in mind the next time someone tries to sell you a large language model for expert advice.
Wonderful writing.
Tic-tac-toe is EASY for the most basic computers. The Geniac kit, sold in the mid-50s, wasn’t even a real computer. It could be set up to play tic-tac-toe, at least in terms of coded responses.
Early PCs like Apple and TRS-80 had graphic versions of the game more or less built in. It was a selling point.
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