How about tic-tac-toe (noughts and crosses for those in the Old Dart)? Currently GPT-4 is terrible at it!
Sure, you could trivially program a game-specific AI to be capable of winning or forcing a draw every time. The trick is to have a general AI which has not seen the game before (in its training set) be able to pick up and learn the game after a couple of tries.
I’m talking about playing the game well. It can play the game but it’s bad at it. Tic-tac-toe is an excellent example game because even small children can figure out an optimal strategy to win or draw every time.
Sure, you could trivially program a game-specific AI to be capable of winning or forcing a draw every time. The trick is to have a general AI which has not seen the game before (in its training set) be able to pick up and learn the game after a couple of tries.
This is a task any 5 year old can easily do!