> Do you know the rules to the game tic-tac-toe?
>> Yes, I do! Tic-tac-toe is a two-player game played on a 3x3 grid. The players take turns marking either an "X" or an "O" in an empty square on the grid until one player gets three of their marks in a row, either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. The first player to get three in a row wins the game. If all squares on the grid are filled and no player has three in a row, the game ends in a draw.
> can you play the game with me displaying the game as ascii in each response?
I am curious what prompts you used.
I usually have it go first and start with X but have tried O. It usually makes no attempts to block 3 in a row, even if I tell it "try to win," "block me from winning," etc. Once it told me I won without having 3 in a row, many times it plays after I've already won and then tells me I've won, though usually it does manage to recognize a win condition. Today I tried asking it "do you know the optimal strategy?" and it explained it but claimed that it hadn't been using it to make the game "more fun for me" (honorable but I'd already told it to try to win) and asked if I wanted it to play optimally. It tried and ended up claiming we had a draw because neither of us achieved a win condition even though I'd won and it just played after the game was over.
Various strategies include asking it to draw ASCII, provide moves in symbol-location notation, ex: X5, asking it how to play, telling it to try to win, etc.
I do find it very odd that it is so poor at tic-tac-toe, it seems to even handle seemingly novel games better.
It set up the game very well with a representation of the board, and even provided a system for us to input our moves. It doesn't seem to totally get the idea of taking turns though; at first it doesn't go unless prompted, then it prompts me to move twice in a row.
Then after a few turns it claims to have won when it hasn't got three in a row, and when I tell it that it hasn't won, it makes another move on top of one of my moves and claims to have won again (at least this time with three in a row, if you ignore that it made an illegal move). At this point I stopped trying to play.