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Anthropic’s Claude AI is playing Pokémon on Twitch — slowly
Anthropic set its latest AI model loose on Pokémon Red. It turned into a fascinating experiment.
One Twitch user summed up the situation this way: “who would win, a computer AI with thousands of hours put into programming it, or 1 rock wall?” On the one hand, it’s frustrating to watch Claude traverse Pokémon Red with the speed of a Slowpoke, reasoning through each and every step with excruciating contemplation. In October 2023, Seattle-based software engineer Peter Whidden published a YouTube video detailing how he trained a reinforcement learning algorithm to play Pokémon.
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