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It's funny you say that because ChatGPT knows how to play chess although it wasn't explicitly trained for that[0]. The "if it can do this, soon it will be able to do that" is actually becoming real.

[0] https://villekuosmanen.medium.com/i-played-chess-against-cha...



The AI that I was referring to, that played chess, was a predecessor to ChatGPT. I believe it was called Deep Blue.

By the way, ChatGPT, as of May of this year at least, cannot play tic-tac-toe, but it thinks it knows how: https://www.aiweirdness.com/optimum-tic-tac-toe/




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