GPT-5 plays Tic Tac Toe perfectly?
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resolved Aug 8
Resolved
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Resolves YES if GPT-5 never makes strategic errors when playing Tic Tac Toe.

It doesn't get any scaffolding. It's just prompted with "Let's play tic tac toe", then the with the user's moves, nothing else.

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Do current models make mistakes in tick tack toe? I've never tried it myself

@jim interesting, I guess it's not a reasoning model so it makes sense. I wonder if gpt5 will be a reasoning model by default.

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surely it lets the user win sometimes