Magnus Carlsen, the world's No. 1 player, has just had an interesting “wisdom” with artificial intelligence chatgpt and won absolute victory. However, what surprised the chess community and laughed was not the result of the match, but the way of chatgpt … evaluating Carlsen only at amateur level.
In the game that takes place on social network X (Twitter), Carlsen imports each country according to the symbol of chess standard, not using the real chessboard or illustration. After 53 countries, he won without losing any troops. Chatgpt is forced to surrender because of the loss of all well, the vital factor is still in the end.
Immediately after the match, Carlsen asked Chatgpt to evaluate his performance. This one does not regret the way Carlsen deployed the Philidor, handled the middle and sharpened. However, the “shocking” part is the point that Chatgpt predicts for Carlsen, only at the Elo 1,800–2,000, equivalent to amateur or semi -specialized levels.
This is completely contrary to the reality, when Carlsen currently owns the Elo 2,839, leading the world chess village and has held the No. 1 position for more than a decade. This situation quickly became a humorous topic on social networks, when many people joked, “Then we are probably at 500 Elo.”
Trang Chess.com also quickly joined with a funny comment: “Elo 1,800 is actually not bad!”, As a sweet sarcasm for the “confidence” of chatgpt when evaluating the life legend of chess village.
Experts explain that chatgpt is a versatile language model, not optimized to play chess like specialized engines like Stockfish or Leela Chess Zero, which has Elo from 3,600 to 3,700. Therefore, this one does not recognize the right level of Carlsen is understandable, especially when only analyzing text instead of identifying water on the visual chessboard.
However, this challenge is still an interesting performance, while showing the superiority of Carlsen, while reflecting the clear limit of artificial intelligence in deep tactical games like chess. And in a world where AI is stronger and stronger, Magnus Carlsen still holds the title of “chess”, at least before chatgpt.